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If someone did a movie based on the Rainbow Bridge...I just couldn't watch it. Just couldn't.

All of the above, plus.

For their first “date” my Dad took my Mother to that little country store in the movie, and bought her a bottle of pop. She was riding a horse to visit a neighbor when he came along on his horse and asked her to ride to the store with him. Visiting a cousin in that area a few years ago, he knew where the store was and took me there.

Ruark's "The old man and the boy" should be one of every 12 year olds birthday gifts, there are so many good reads out there I don't see the point of reading many of them twice.

Dan and Ann

They made a book out of that? I'll have to check it out

My wife has a first edition of that book signed by the author. All our kids cried their eyes out reading it so there may be some stained pages.

It made an impression on me as a kid. Got a pair of redbones and named them Ann and Dan. Dan was as
fine of a hunting dog I ever had until he got stolen. Ann was the deer runningest dog I’ve ever seen. I need to have my son read the book.

This . Got my first copy in about 1972 at 8 years old. I’ve worn two out. Always wanted to have a place in the Ozarks since

And for all you readers, one that will tear your heart out by the roots , look up “ Beautiful Joe” my God , I had all but forgotten about that one . It’s heartbreaking / warming and a classic

Amen brother

As a hound man and lover, if you watched it and didn't tear up you weren't a rea' hound lover. Another good one was the old one calledl "the biscuit eater" They don't make hunting dog movies anymore

Read it when I was about 10-12. My Mom saved each weeks installment in the Red Deer Advocate. Great story and I did cry. I believe I've seen the movie and while it is decent, it is no where as good as the book.

It is a classic that everyone should read.

The book is always better than the movie.

I had forgotten all about the "The Biscuit Eater"

So true.

I've probably seen both movies but which of the 2 is the best the 2003 version?

Read the book many times. It's definitely one of my favorites although I rather enjoyed "Daniel Boone and the Caroliney Trail" also lol.

I read the book when I was 13 and loved it. But it kicked my ass, no denying it. Three lifetimes later I still remember the story perfectly, and have never read it again. I’ll won’t watch the movie simply because the book told the story perfectly.

Wilson Rawls came to the school where my dad taught back in about ‘74. He tells about how Mr. Rawls was extremely uncomfortable speaking to the school, and how he struggled to autograph books with the assistance of his wife who wrote customers names on a paper for him to copy into each book. Apparently his life’s story was extremely powerful. He grew up very uneducated, and very poor. He originally wrote all of his books on opened grocery bags. When he met the woman who later became his wife who was very well educated, he was so ashamed of his low level of literacy that he burned up a box full of rolled up “books.” Only after they’d been married for a few years did he confess to what he’d done. His wife encouraged and helped him rewrite his stories from memory and get them to print. Other stories are lost forever.

While I never met Mr. Rawls, I have personally autograph copies of Red Fern and Summer of the Monkeys. They live A protected life in a barrister bookcase, and are two items I’d try to save if I smelled smoke.