From the first rice crop grown in 1904 to the famed green timber, the book contains over 340 pages detailing the people, places and events that makes the region a dream destination for waterfowlers.

Spectacular photography accompanies engaging content written to educate readers on how the Grand Prairie came to be and has sustained the reputation for world class mallard duck hunting.

It is not too lyrical, I hope, to say that the Stuttgart region has become one of the wonders of America. No place else can the wild duck be seen and heard in such profusion. To go into a marsh before daybreak, listen to the chatter of great rafts of ducks on the water, watch them as they soar gracefully in the sky with whistling wings and see the morning sun bring out the brilliant colors of their heads, wings and breasts—that’s living.

Ralph Coghlan
St. Louis Post–Dispatch / December 30, 1949