The dogs try to "tree" - chase into a tree - the coon. The coon uses a number of tricks to elude the hunters, namely using water to mask its scent. The dogs (or sometimes a single dog) trail the scent of a wily coon through the woods at night (raccoons are nocturnal). Coons steal food from farms and are considered great nuisances, so hunting them became a sport, and Rawls minutely details the hunting process. The book centers on raccoon, or "coon," hunting in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The book was also adapted for film in 1974, and an original film sequel was released in 1992. By the late 1960s, after a marketing blunder of targeting the book to adults, it became a classic young adult book, a poignant and adventurous tale of a boy's deep love for his two hounds. She edited his poor grammar, it was serialized in the "Saturday Evening Post," and Doubleday published the novel in 1961. With encouragement from his wife, Sophie, he wrote the book in three weeks. Wilson Rawls based Where the Red Ferns Grows largely on his own boyhood in Scraper, Oklahoma.
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