<P> Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhound hunting dogs . </P> <P> When leaving work in Idaho's Snake River Valley, Billy Colman sees a pack of dogs attacking a stray coonhound . He takes the stray home to feed it . Once it has rested, Billy sets it free, knowing that it will return home . </P> <P> The experience reminds Billy of his childhood in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma . He wants a dog, and his parents offer to get him a mongrel from a neighbor . He wants two coonhounds, but his parents cannot afford them . Billy finds a magazine ad for a Kentucky kennel which breeds Redbone Coonhounds and sells them for $25 each . He goes to work performing odd jobs and saves the $50 he needs with the help of his grandfather . Since it takes two years to do so, his grandfather writes to see if the kennel will honor the ad . They do, and the price has dropped so the two puppies only cost $40 . </P> <P> Billy's dogs are delivered to the freight depot in Tahlequah . His family does not have transportation, so he finds his own way to get to the depot and walks through the hills . He picks up his puppies, which are a male and a female . He buys a gift for each member of his family with his extra $10 before heading back home . </P>

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