THE BEASTS OF THE EAST: The Rise and Fall of America's Eastern Wilderness

Before the skyscrapers and smokestacks rose across the Eastern U.S., elk, bison, wolves, and cougars roamed. Typically imagined as icons of the West, these large mammals are in fact native to what was once the towering forests of the Northeast, rolling prairies of the Midwest, and cypress swamps in the Deep South before being brought to the brink of extinction.