On Its 75th Birthday: The Untold Story of the ‘Real’ Father of the Duck Stamp

The story of how Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper cartoonist Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling became the father of the federal duck stamp has been repeated so often it's become an urban legend. While the colorful Darling may have been many things, father of the federal duck stamp wasn't necessarily one of them, according to an article in the spring issue of Delta Waterfowl magazine.

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