Longtime Research Consultant with the Society of Tympanuchus Cupido Pinnatus, Ltd (STCP) John Toepfer joined the Sutton Center in 2015 as the first STCP/Hamerstrom Prairie Grouse Research Chair. His untimely death in 2018 left a hole in the world’s expertise about prairie grouse as well as in the lives of many colleagues and friends. A number of these colleagues and friends have cooperated to compile this memorial book describing first-hand experiences working with John. Those who knew John will be particularly able to relate to these stories, while strangers will get an inkling of John’s rich personality.