Founding Flies, The: 43 American Masters: Their Patterns and Influences
"For the first time, as far as I know, Mike Valla has brought together in one place an account of the major developments in the ways in which artificial flies were thought about, tied, and fished in the United States over the period from the mid-1880s to the late 1960s... In its scope and depth,The Founding Fliesstakes a broader claim for Valla as one of the country's leading historians of the art and craft of the artificial fly." (Bud BynackCalifornia Fly Fisher2013-10-01)