A Century of Setters

The Ryman line celebrates its 100th anniversary

[img 2 center caption=Sir Roger DeCoverly with his Medals 1912] The root of it all came during the winter of 1907-the same year Oklahoma became a state, Rudyard Kipling won a Nobel Prize for literature, and Lord Baden-Powell formed the Boy Scouts-when a squirming, yappy, white puppy was born. This happy event took place near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; the puppy's name: Sir Roger DeCoverly. People quickly recognized this was a singular canine. His blue belton blood represented a bridge across the sharply divided camps of form versus function in the English setter world.

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