There is no sadder story than Old Yeller. That’s true of both the 1956 novel, written by Fred Gipson—a Hill Country native who was born in 1908 on a farm in an unincorporated part of the area about a ...

Dear reader, it is World Rabies Day on Friday and I thought it would be a great time to learn more about this disease. My memory of rabies comes from the book Old Yeller, an incredible story of a ...

In the 1957 classic Disney movie Old Yeller, the young boy, Travis, must shoot Yeller because he has contracted rabies. In that scene, you see a snarling Yeller facing Travis. Travis points the gun, ...

You remember the scene: Toward the end of "Old Yeller," young Travis looks through the wooden slats of a corn crib at Yeller, who's now snarling and growling in the pen, showing the first signs of ...

Wednesday night, I was getting ready to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” and/or “A Christmas Carol” one more time as I wrote this column. But then I stumbled on a favorite from my boyhood, “Old Yeller,” ...