Hyde, Dayton O.

Dayton's writing is imbued with an appreciation of the land, natural history, and wildlife. A love of adventure ensures that the rancher, humorist, conservationist, photographer, and award-winning writer always has something interesting to write about.Dayton is the author of fifteen books, including The Major, the Poacher, and the Wonderful One-Trout River, one of the best-loved fishing tales of recent times and winner of the Northwest Book Sellers Award for Literary Excellence. Dayton taught at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference for more than twenty years and has been a Chautauqua faculty member for the past seventeen years. His newest book is Mr. Beans.Dayton lives in Hot Springs, South Dakota, near a sanctuary he founded for wild horses.