Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
The story is about a young boy named Billy Coleman that wants a coon-hunting dog. He looks and looks for a dog. He finally finds some dogs, but they are in town and he lives far away in the Ozarks. He goes into town and gets the dogs. their names are Little Ann and Old Dan. Billy takes his dogs hunting for the "Ghost Coon". The Pritchard boys are hunting for it too. Their dogs start fighting. Ruben ,the older Pritchard, tries to kill Billy's dogs with an ax. Rueben accidentally falls on the ax and kills himself. Billy is scared for life now. A different night BIlly was hunting for coons. The dogs came across a mountain lion. The dogs saved Billys life, but the dogs died.
Billy with Little Ann and Old Dan.
Ruben with one of his dogs.
Little Ann and Old Dan treeing a coon.
Little Ann's and Old Dan's grave.