Danny sets out reluctantly and ends up wandering the woods with Red for a while. Haggin will think they lured the dog away and call the police on them. In the morning, however, Red is outside waiting on Danny’s porch. At home, Danny thinks about how different Red is from their “ordinary varmint hounds” that he has hunted with since “he was old enough to do anything.” Danny tells Ross about Red, revealing that Mr. Red has “all the qualities a dog should have.” Danny has always dreamed of having a dog like Red as a companion. Red is beautiful, a “shiny, silky red from nose to tail,” as well as intelligent, strong, and loyal. Haggin’s prize show dog: an Irish Setter with the fancy pedigreed name of Champion Sylvester’s Boy, but Danny calls him Red.Īlthough Danny has grown up with dogs, he has never seen one like Red. Haggin news of his bull, Danny encounters Red for the first time. Danny finds the bull, but it has been killed by Old Majesty, a mighty black bear that has terrorized the Wintapi for years. As Big Red opens, Danny tracks a bull that has gone missing from Mr. Haggin raises expensive, pedigreed cattle, blooded horses, and show dogs on his large property. Danny and Ross do not have a lot of money, but they do keep some bluetick hunting hounds, a cow, some pigs, a mule named Asa, and chickens. They make their living off the land by hunting, fishing, collecting and selling wild honey, trapping and selling pelts, and occasionally doing odd jobs for Mr. Danny lives with his father, Ross Pickett, in a one-room cabin in the Wintapi on the edge of wealthy Mr. As Danny and Red overcome dangerous encounters in the wild, their trust in each other grows and so does their special bond. Kjelgaard, an avid conservationist, outdoorsman, and animal lover, vividly describes the natural world of the Wintapi. Narrated from a third-person point of view, the story follows the experiences of seventeen-year-old Danny Pickett and his dog, Big Red, in the Wintapi wilderness. Big Red is a classic outdoor adventure novel for young readers written in 1945 by American author Jim Kjelgaard.
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