Billy Colman spots a Redbone coonhound in a fight with neighborhood dogs. Billy chases the other dogs and helps the hound recover from its wounds. When the dog is feeling stronger again Billy realizes he must set it free knowing that the hound will find its way home.
Growing up in the Ozarks with his parents and three younger sisters, Billy wants to own a pair of Red Bone coonhounds but his parents tell him that the family cannot afford coonhounds. One day Billy finds an article in a sportsman magazine offering a pair of Red Bone coonhounds in Kentucky for $25 each.For two years he works many different jobs and manages to save $50. His grandfather writes to the kennel and finds out that the dogs have dropped in price by $5 each.
the mail dose not deliver so he had to go get them by foot. With the extra ten dollars Billy buys gifts for his family a pair of overalls for his dad cloth for making dresses for his mom and sisters and a bag of candy for his sisters. He decieds to name them old dan and little ann.
On the first day of the hunting season Billy takes his dogs out for their very first hunt. He promises them if they tree a raccoon he will do the rest. The dogs are ready to chase their first raccoon in a large tree which Billy had before nicknamed the Big Tree and it is one of the largest trees in the woods. As he tries to call his well trained dogs off the hunt they look at him sadly and he cuts down the enormous tree to keep his promise an exhausting effort that takes him a few days of chopping and c he gets blistered hands. In the end, when about to give up his effort he offers a short prayer for strength to continue. Mysteriously,a strong wind starts to blow and the tree comes crashing down. Old Dan and Little Ann take the raccoon down.
Billy Old Dan and Little Ann go out hunting almost every night. Not long after earning local fame two boys named Rubin and Rainie challenge Billy to a raccoon hunting contest. They say that no hound could ever chase the ghost raccoon. A raccoon that lives near the Pritchards home. Billy tries to ignore the challenge but the Pritchards are mean and start to talk about Billy's grandfather. His grandfather grows furious and tells Billy to accept the challenge so that Old Dan and Little Ann can chase it. After a few days of hunting and going through the ghost raccoon's tricks.so they got it but did not want to kill it. Rubin tells Billy that his dog will easily beat Old Dan, then Little Ann joins to protect Old Dan and the Bluetick. as they worrie for there dogs life they try to kill the other dog wait an axe and trips and kills his self.
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