Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West Book

From my review of Rick McIntyre's Reign of Wolf 21:
When I first visited Yellowstone (it's 18 hours away) in Sept. 2019, I had no interest in wolves. When watching nature shows about the park to get a lay of the land, I actually hated the wolves. Still hated them for a while after.
A few months later I read Death in Yellowstone. Then Death in Grand Canyon. The author of the latter book casually mentions Michael Robinson's Predatory Bureaucracy about the drive to kill wolves in the west. I found that big can bring high prices and managed to find a copy for under $10. My love of wolves began.
Review: I like an underdog. Watching those nature shows, the wolf surely never takes on that role. Robinson's book is a dramatically different take. Many know what happened to the bison as settlers moved into the West. A lesser-told story is what happened to the wolves. And why.
The writing can be quite dry at times - a lot of history packed into not-so-many pages. Reading really picks up when Robinson highlights certain famous wolves. The rest is just, well, how someone killed said wolves.
Given the intelligence and social nature of wolves, the extermination methods seem particularly cruel. Having watched and read many shows on wolves at this point, I understand it's a tricky situation. Farmers want to raise livestock. Wolves can eat livestock. Robinson does not necessarily get into all that, but after reading this book, I root for the wolves.