Disney's film adapts Fred Gipson's novel about a boy on a Texas homestead and the stray dog who protects the family, and Gipson co-wrote the screenplay.
Book· 1956· Drama
Old Yeller
by Fred Gipson
Old Yeller: 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
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- Dogs
- Human-animal bond
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.