Fred Gipson

The story about the dedication between a dog and a family.

When Travis and Arliss are taken captive by renegade Apaches, only the son of Old Yeller can track them.

A young boy repeatedly puts himself in danger in his determination to kill the wild boar that has destroyed his prize watermelon.

Bill Leftwich, member of the Aftosa Commission in Mexico, kept a visual record of the events of 1949 with his drawings. His stories were told to Fred Gipson who later combined them with the illustrations to create this book.

The son of Old Yeller helps his owners escape from the Apaches in the East Texas territory of the 1870s.

True story of a West Texas cowhand. A working cowboy who could break a horse, rope a cow, doctor a sheep, fix a windmill, dig a post hole for fence, or any of a thousand chores on a ranch. Fat Alford later hauled livestock, feed, and equipment to West Texas ranches.

A small twelve-year old boy's determination to prove he is tough sets him on the trail of a runaway horse.

A regional story told in the first person by twelve-year-old Cotton Kinney of northern Texas, whose hunting trip with a local bachelor hero brings him a much desired dog and the sight of his friend, Blackie Scantling, being secured by the girl who should have him ... Dialect yarn."