May 1—Red Fern Festival visitors heard the familiar sound of coon dogs at the April 29 Hound Dog Field Trials, where competitors met to test their canines' abilities and pay homage to the book and ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The 16th annual Red Fern Festival is coming back to Tahlequah this Friday and Saturday. The festival celebrates Tahlequah and its role in the story “Where the Red Fern Grow." In ...

This June marks 50 years since the classic film, “Where the Red Fern Grows,” made its debut in theaters in 1974. Based on the 1961 novel by Oklahoma author Wilson Rawls, this heartwarming ...

Tires turned slowly away from the hum of pavement, sinking into the quiet of pinestraw and sand. Longleaf giants towered high above as we stopped to close the gate behind us. As a boy, I had read the ...

Wilson Rawls, who became a best-selling author after he burned his manuscript and rewrote it, didn't care much for books when he was growing up on a farm on his mother's Cherokee allotment near ...