Where the Red Fern Grows A loving threesome they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country Old Dan had the brawn Little Ann had the brains and Billy had the will to make them into the finest hunting team i
A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country Old Dan had the brawn Little Ann had the brains, and Billy had the will to make them into the finest hunting team in the valley Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too Where the Red Fern Grows is an exciting tale of love and adventure you ll never forget.
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Free Read [Christian Book] ¾ Where the Red Fern Grows - by Wilson Rawls ✓
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Wilson Rawls
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Free Read [Christian Book] ¾ Where the Red Fern Grows - by Wilson Rawls ✓
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Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in the Ozark country of Scraper, Oklahoma His mother home schooled her children, and after Rawls read Jack London s canine centered tale Call of the Wild, he decided to become a writer.But the Great Depression hit the United States in 1929, and Rawls left home to find work His family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1935, and he came home each fall to work and hunt He wrote stories while he traveled, but his lack of formal education hampered his grammar, and he could not sell anything In 1958, he gave up on his dream and burned all his work He later revealed his literary desires to his wife, Sophie, and she encouraged him to keep writing.In a three week burst, Rawls wrote Where the Red Fern Grows, a highly autobiographical and poignant account of a boy, his two hounds, and raccoon hunting in the Ozark Mountains His wife edited his grammar and, after serialization in the Saturday Evening Post, Doubleday published the novel in 1961 By the late 1960s, word of mouth helped the book become a classic for young readers Rawls wrote and Sophie edited one book, The Summer of the Monkeys, in 1976 This, too, became a classic Rawls died in 1984 in Idaho Falls, Idaho.