About the Author

Dave Books is an award-winning writer and former editor of Montana Outdoors. He has followed his gun dogs through forests, fields, and marshes across the Midwest, Northwest, and Southwest for close to forty years. His stories have appeared in Pheasants Forever, Quail Forever, Ducks Unlimited, Sporting Classics, Gun Dog, and The Upland Almanac.

Reviews

"Books has mastered the art of the well-paced bird-hunting essay. He has a gift for quickly establishing a sense of place, whether he's working up an arroyo in the Sonoran Desert or crossing cropland in northern Montana's Milk River country. . . . His fine prose embraces terrain and cover, the character of dogs and the qualities of good guns, the natural history of the game he pursues and the temperament of his companions."--Gray's Sporting Journal

"Books writes with flair, is irrepressibly good natured and infuses quiet humor in much of his material."--Sporting Classics Magazine

"The strength of his book . . . is that you can dip into each envy-inspiring essay and come out of it with a great appreciation for the sport."-- Big Sky Journal

"Dave Books has spent a long and happy lifetime hunting the high plains of Montana and other Western and Midwestern haunts--and it shows in his new book, seasoned with his wit, humor, and wistfulness for the hunter, hunted, and the outdoors."--Mark Herwig, editor of Pheasants Forever Journal

"Dave Books writes with the spare, honest beauty of the northern Great Plains, where he has spent much of the past forty hunting seasons chasing pheasants, sharptails, Huns, and other upland species. Reading his entertaining and informative stories will make you want to grab a shotgun, whistle up your dog, and head out the door."--Tom Dickson, editor of Montana Outdoors