Joe Bowman's Patterdale  
  
  
  
Joe Bowman, the Ullswater Huntsman, from Foxes, Foxhounds & Foxhunting 
by Richard Clapham, published in 1923.  
  
  
Most of the folks that write books on dogs would like their breeds to be ancient and have romantic and mysterious origins. Pick up any book on Jack Russell Terriers, for example, and Trump will be presented as the first white foxing terrier on earth -- never mind that the young John Russell selected it for looks alone and had no problem finding another white foxing terrier to mate with it. 
  
The Border Terrier folks have wrapped the sto