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Nature & Animals influenced Old Yeller
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
- Dogs
- Human-animal bond
The evidence
On a Texas frontier homestead in the 1860s, a boy comes to love a stray dog who protects the family from wild animals, until the dog contracts rabies. Fred Gipson drew on his grandfather's stories of frontier life.
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