Fred Gipson

When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, "Old Yeller" is a timeless coming-of-age tale. Travis is left to...

A regional story told in the first person by twelve-year-old Cotton Kinney of northern Texas, whose hunting trip with a local bachelor hero brings him a much desired dog and the sight of his friend, Blackie Scantling, being secured by the girl who should have him ... Dialect yarn."

A young boy repeatedly puts himself in danger in his determination to kill the wild boar that has destroyed his prize watermelon.