author

Harold Warren Dobyns

b. 1896

Remembered today for a practical government booklet on coyote control, this little-known writer worked in the world of early 20th-century wildlife management. His surviving publication is brief, direct, and rooted in field experience rather than literary flourish.

1 Audiobook

Den Hunting as a Means of Coyote Control

Den Hunting as a Means of Coyote Control

by Harold Warren Dobyns, Stanley Paul Young

About the author

Harold Warren Dobyns was born in Oregon on July 30, 1896, and later lived in Pendleton. Public records and library listings identify him as Harold Warren Dobyns, 1896–1984, and connect him with the United States Department of Agriculture leaflet Den Hunting as a Means of Coyote Control, written with Stanley P. Young.

That work is the main reason his name remains in print. As preserved by Project Gutenberg and other library catalogs, the booklet focuses on the techniques and field knowledge used in coyote den hunting, reflecting the practical, government-issued style of wildlife control writing from its era.

Very little biographical detail appears to be readily documented online beyond these basics, so his profile survives mostly through that publication and a small trail of historical records rather than a well-known public literary career.