Introduction

What started out, a half century ago, to be a chase down history's trail to discover the origin of a silver sculpture of a man and his dog plasticized around a copper armature turned out to be a chase of the history of mankind itself.

Analysis

The writer has brought to light of day, a reasoned documented analysis of the unbroken chain of seemingly isolated facts, obscure data and woven them into a tapestry or painted a word picture of where man has been.

The Quest

The quest for the man, the sculptor, and his culture became a time traveled beyond the normal bounds of inquiry.