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Nature & Animals influenced Where the Red Fern Grows
Added by Media Influence Map · 30 September 2026
- Dogs
- Hunting
- The Ozarks
The evidence
A boy in the Ozark Mountains saves for two years to buy a pair of redbone coonhound pups and trains them to hunt raccoons, and the book is about the bond between the boy, the dogs and the hills.
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