Old Yeller

Okay, another summary for another book, this time, a classic book, Old Yeller. This book's main protagonist is Travis, who is reluctantly living with a yeller dog, or a dog with a dingy yellow coat.

Travis's dad and a few other men formed a "pool herd" to drive cattle towards a cattle market in Abilene, Kansas, and Travis, a 14 year old boy, was left to take care of his mom and little brother, Arliss. They're very poor farmers, although they have enough to eat. It was after the Civil War in America. Texans were very poor and the Confederate dollars are now worthless. One day, Travis discovered a big yeller dog in the farm. He reluctantly kept the dog since Arliss protested fiercely.

The dog was named Old Yeller, and was proved to be extremely useful, saving the family on several occasions and helped Travis in marking hogs for meat and hunting. One day, the true owner of Old Yeller, a man named Burn Sanderson, arrived to take back his dog.When Arliss resisted, he made a deal with Arliss: They could still keep the dog, and in exchange for the dog, they would cook him supper for the night. After supper, Burn told Travis to beware of a rabies plague going around and any rabic animals, which won't act normally at all.

Burn was right. Travis have to shot a mad bull who he, his mom, and Arliss had watched fighting another bull, and he have to shot one of his cows, who were rabic. When his mom and his friend, Lisbeth, returned from burning the rabic cow, they noticed a mad wolf going after them. Old Yeller held the wolf back, and got bitten. Travis reluctantly shot both the wolf and later, Old Yeller, after his mom convinced him to shoot him.

Travis's dad returned home with cash, and bought Travis a horse on the way home. One of the pups that Lisbeth gave him replaced Old Yeller