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.
"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
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