@adtothebone Indeed. Wolves (Canis lupus, C. lycaon*, C. rufus) ranged the entire contiguous United States and Alaska.

The federal extermination campaign is well detailed in the borrowable book, Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West, by Michael J. Robinson - https://archive.org/details/predatorybureacr00mich/mode/2up

*Taxonomic identity still being sorted.