World-renowned fly fisherman Major George Quillaine creates his own stream and stocks it with one mighty championship trout, not anticipating a history-making duel with a fourteen-year-old armed with hook and worm...
At age thirteen, Dayton Hyde, a spirited beanpole of a boy, ran away from home in Michigan to Yamsi, his uncle’s ranch in eastern Oregon. This was in the 1930s, and Yamsi was one of the last great cattle ranches of the West. Soon the boy, nicknamed...