![]() The first night of hunting season, Billy promises the dogs that if they tree a coon, he will do the rest. With his grandfather's help, Billy teaches his dogs to be very loyal to each other and to Billy. As he returns with the dogs, he sees a heart carved on a tree with the names "Dan + Ann" and decides to name the puppies Little Ann and Old Dan. Billy's dogs are delivered to Tahlequah, over 20 miles away. After seeing a magazine ad for coon hounds, Billy spends the next two years working odd jobs to earn the $50 he needs to buy two puppies. ![]() Young Billy Coleman wants nothing more than a pair of hounds for coon hunting. In light of this event, he has a flashback to when he was a ten-year-old boy living in the Ozark Mountains. He takes it home with him so that its wounds can heal. The book is a work of autobiographical fiction based on Rawls' own childhood in the Ozarks.īilly Coleman, a middle-aged man, rescues a redbone hound under attack by neighborhood dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhounds for hunting. ![]()
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