Legend's Legacy: The Hand at our Shoulder »

Mike Gaddis is contributing editor for Sporting Classics magazine. His work appears in Audubon, Wildfowl, The Pointing Dog Journal, and Wildlife In North Carolina. Anthology contributions include his acclaimed signature essay "Taking a Life," in A Hunter's Heart. He resides in Creedmoor, North Carolina, with the sixth generation of his beloved November Setters.

In stories of mentorship as affecting as The Old Man and the Boy come moments that we must never forget, when we learned as much from woods and waters as from a spelling book—not only in kind and gentle remembrances, but in intuitive vignettes, present and future. Legend’s Legacy stands unparalleled as an affecting commemoration of the most endearing and enduring aspects of our sporting traditions, and an inspiring tribute to those who cared, who taught us then, and guide us still.