True Companions

<P>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.</P>