Old Yeller -- Fred Gipson, Hardcover Cards - Playing / Tarot Published: 10/1/2000

Published: 10/1/2000

Sheila Ford Hamp

and Simon Winchester's Pacific and The Atlantic

With his signature wit

in not believing the boy

Old Yeller -- Fred Gipson, Hardcover Cards - Playing / Tarot Published: 10/1/2000When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloIquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. The big, ugly, yellow dog showed up out of nowhere one night and stole a whole side of hanging pork, and when Travis