A story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country ranks high in the annals of boy and dogdom. Travis is thirteen when his father goes off on the long cattle trail to Abilene, leaving him as man of the house. There were the hogs who ran wild and some of the most exciting parts of the story tell of the roping and branding of the young. There were the cattle to milk, and the constant battle against skunks and coons in the garden. There was a small brother, violent in protest against Travis as disciplinarian. And there was his mother, taking her share and more, in the struggle for existence. But most important there was Old Yeller, a big ugly yellow cur, whom Travis hated at the start and grew to love and trust and depend on, up to the tragic and dramatic end. A moving segment of early frontier America.
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