This collection of essays celebrates the field dogs Chris Madson has lived with, and loved, over a lifetime. There are stories of choosing pups and the trials of the early years; stories of time in wild places across North America in pursuit of pheasants, sharptails, prairie chickens, blue grouse, bobwhite, and Gambel’s quail; and stories of the bond that comes from spending years with these special companions. Madson writes with affection and humor as he remembers with a smile and a lump in the throat what these dogs have meant to him—in the field, at home, and in his heart.
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Table of Contents
Preface by Tom Reed
Introduction: Old companions
Dawn
Pointing the way
Beginning
Jaws
Mid-day
New partners
What’s worth saving
Zen in the art of wingshooting
A few points on prairie grouse
Fool’s hen
Bet your boots
Immigrants
Discovering the desert
The Twenty-One
Judy’s cranberry chocolate chip bread
A hard school
Last day
Evening
Closing time
The rainbow
The bell
Afterword: About the killing
