True Companions: Life in the Field and Home with Our Hunting Dogs

by Chris Madson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811773539
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	10/16/2023
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Chris Madson has an MS in wildlife ecology from University of Wisconsin. He has been editor of Kansas Wildlife and Wyoming Wildlife. A freelance writer and photographer, he is published in Audubon, Outdoor Life, National Wildlife, Nature Conservancy Magazine, High CountryNews, DU, Wing and Shot, Pheasants Forever, and Sporting Classics, to name some of the many publications that carry his work regularly. He lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Table of Contents

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