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Old Yeller
UNITED STATES · 1957

Old Yeller

Robert Stevenson
coming of age family responsibility human-animal bond frontier life loss and sacrifice
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Synopsis

Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860s. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog.

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