Where the Red Fern Grows...

[GunarSailors]

Here are pictures of my grandpa, some coons, and his coon dogs in Northeast Indiana from 1958.

A nights worth of coon and an albino.

The albino coon.

 

[Farmer17]

I see coons dead on the road all the time and that book leads you to believe they were VERY smart. I see a lot of skunks, armadillos, rabbits, and possoms dead on the road but more Racoons and squirrels than anything.

 

[Usmc5811]

Never got into coon hunting but when I was 11 my father gave me a Norwegian Elkhound that I named Nick. I also read that book around that time. Nick and I chased squirrels everyday that we could in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for the next 6 years. Some of the best times of my life. I could really relate to that book. One of my all time favorite books. Wish I had a picture of Old Nick to put up here but they are all at my fathers in old albums. But here is a pic of my "Biscuit Hound" all 75 lbs of Akita.

 

[SixShooter14]

My hound "Slim" a Treeing Walker

I've had probably 6 coonhounds in the last 15 years. Walkers are my favorite.

I've had running walkers and treeing walkers....and I haven't seen any breed consistently match their instinct and drive to get a coon

 

[GunarSailors]

Never got into coon hunting but when I was 11 my father gave me a Norwegian Elkhound that I named Nick. I also read that book around that time. Nick and I chased squirrels everyday that we could in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for the next 6 years. Some of the best times of my life. I could really relate to that book. One of my all time favorite books. Wish I had a picture of Old Nick to put up here but they are all at my fathers in old albums. But here is a pic of my "Biscuit Hound" all 75 lbs of Akita.

Wow, that's awesome. Thank you for sharing that. I can imagine how you must have felt about that dog.

 

[Usmc5811]

Wow, that's awesome. Thank you for sharing that. I can imagine how you must have felt about that dog.

That dog and I were best friends. I don't know how many squirrels we killed with my fathers Marlin 39a, but I know it was a pile of them. Never seen another squirrel dog like him.

 

[Jessie]

I don't like to talk about one of my current dogs...
She has mental issues.

 

[meaneyedcatz]

I've not rear the book but it was a favorite movie of our girls when they were just little squirts.

BUT I have read THE SHEPARD OF THE HILLS by Harold Bell Wright.
It also is a wonderful story about young love, good guys vs bad guys and the Missouri Ozark mountians.

 

[Jessie]

BTW, another good dog book is ' The art of racing in the rain ' by Garth Stein.

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

I read it twice in fourth grade. Great book.

 

[mtgianni]

When you have finished it read The summer of the monkeys by the same Mr Rawls.

 

[GunarSailors]

When you have finished it read The summer of the monkeys by the same Mr Rawls.

Thank you, I ll be sure to check that out. Always looking for a good book.

 

[SteveA]

I loved that book as a kid in the '70s. My boys both read it at school when they hit 5th grade, so we picked up the movie in the Wal-Mart $5 bin. The movie is good but as with many things, the book is so much better. As for dogs, the only time I didn't have one living with me was undergrad and law school but my faithful Beagle was always home when I went to visit my folks. Now we always keep at least three and usually four dogs around, always a bird dog and a motley collection of rescue dogs.

 

[msinc]

Coon hunting was always my first love, I have been at it since I was a kid. The book is good and so are the movies. Wilson Rawls admitted later in interviews that he was not a coon hunter, didn't really know anything about it, save what he had heard and never intended for the book to be some sort of training manual. It is a good story though. Here are a few photos of my dogs...

 

[GunarSailors]

Coon hunting was always my first love, I have been at it since I was a kid. The book is good and so are the movies. Wilson Rawls admitted later in interviews that he was not a coon hunter, didn't really know anything about it, save what he had heard and never intended for the book to be some sort of training manual. It is a good story though. Here are a few photos of my dogs...

Thanks for sharing!!!