Haggin, however, realizes how strong the bond is between boy and dog, and gives Red to Danny. Red survives, but his career as a show dog is over. Danny shoots and kills the bear, but Red is seriously injured. He tracks it down, but Old Majesty kills all the hounds and injures Ross. When Old Majesty kills their mule, Ross goes after the bear. Danny defends himself and wounds the man, taking him prisoner until authorities arrive. Danny also encounters an escaped convict in the woods. Unknown to Danny, Red’s growling protects Danny from a wildcat that had been stalking them. On a deer hunt, Danny shoots a buck but gets injured. Danny takes Red with him as he checks traplines one day, and they battle a wolverine. Danny and Red have many wilderness adventures that test their courage and strengthen their bond of love and loyalty. Danny trains Red to hunt partridges, and Ross ends up respecting Danny’s plan. Ross thinks that Red would be a good varmint dog, but Danny knows that Red is of higher quality. Haggin explains how dog shows help improve and strengthen bloodlines to build good working dogs.īack in the Wintapi, Red comes to live with Danny. Danny initially doesn’t understand why anyone would just judge a dog by its looks and “waste a dog like that gettin’ blue ribbons,” but Mr. Haggin takes Danny and Red to a big dog show in New York City. Haggin will teach Danny how to show Red in competitions, and Danny will train Red as a bird dog. Haggin sees how strongly Danny and Red have bonded. Fraley gets a whip to strike Red, but Danny intervenes. Haggin’s overseer, Robert Fraley, is angry with Danny, wondering where he had taken the dog. Unwilling to risk Red’s safety, Danny does not shoot the bear but takes Red back to Mr. ![]() Danny follows desperately, eventually finding that Red has trapped the bear on a rock. Showing his courage, Red charges the bear, chasing it. Danny and Red go to the spot where Danny found the mauled bull and see Old Majesty. When Red freezes and points at some grouse, Danny also realizes that Red has potential as a bird dog. He realizes that Red has both heart and smarts. 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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