This story still chokes me up. Not because of the dog but because of the boy. It is an old-timey story of what it was like when America was new in Texas. Men had a job to do to provide for their families. That job took them far and wide away from their families. This is the story of how a family had...
Do they get any sadder than this story? It's the story of a family, trying to survive in the wilds of 1870 Texas while the head-of-the-household is off herding cattle, who takes up with an old ugly mutt. The older son, Travis, is trying to protect his mother and little brother from wild bulls and bo...
I read this book a long time ago and just finished reading it again tonight. Wow. What a story! I had forgotten how intense each chapter is, how quickly the story moves and how sometimes touching, sometimes hilarious, sometimes so sad it is. Great book.
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