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| A Life with Dogs
ISBN: 9781496226884
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Bison Books
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Agriculture;
"Who's a good dog?!" They're ALL good dogs, that's who! Big or little, pedigree or mutt, rolling in stinky stuff, or stealing a T-bone meant for the barbecue grill, dogs are humankind's best hope for sanity in trying times. Dogs are eternally optimistic and somehow know how to comfort the more fragile human psyche.
In A Life with Dogs Roger Welsch celebrates his lifelong admiration (as well as envy) of the canine spirit. And yet, for all their evident intellectual transparency, dogs also seem to have an understanding of life--and death--well beyond the grasp of those who think they own them. Dogs are great friends, nurses, workmates, and, if we are good students, great professors of philosophy. Roger laughs and wonders at their wile and beauty--and always appreciates that, wild or domestic, they know more about humans than we may ever know about them.
Roger still mourns the dogs he has lost, and though he missed having a warm ear to rub now and then, he dared not risk further loss. Then an older dog in need came along, and Roger adopted Triumph, the Compliment Dog. With humankind's best friend nearby, all is not lost.
Roger Lee Welsch, news reporter, author, humorist and folklorist, was born on November 6, 1936, in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was a graduate of the University of Nebraska, receiving a bachelor's degree in German (1958) and a master's degree in German (1960.) He studied folklore at the University of Colorado and Indiana University. His career in teaching included teaching German at Dana College in Blair, Nebraska and Nebraska Wesleyan University. In 1973, he began teaching at the University of Nebraska. He went on to become a tenured professor at the University of Nebraska and was considered a scholar of American Folklore and settler culture of the Great Plains. After he quit teaching, he was hired by Charles Kuralt as a senior correspondent reporting from Nebraska for the CBS news program "Sunday Morning." He had a biweekly segment, "Postcards from Nebraska" for over 13 years. He wrote, spoke, and maintained a website about tractors and farm-implements. He was the author of more than 40 books about love, tractors, dogs and women. In 2005, he received the Henry Fonda Award from the State of Nebraska Travel and Tourism Division. Roger Welsch died on September 30, 2022, of kidney failure. He was 85. (Bowker Author Biography) |
