Rain dropped between bare branches and into a zone of red light. At times the drops looked like flakes. Merely an illusion, but fitting in an illusionary scene: a black cloak surrounded us, the woods ...

You go out with coon dogs a dozen times, or maybe a hundred times, and the results are just so-so. Sure, you have fun. You strike coons and you chase them. You tree one 10 minutes after you put the ...

This story, “Jug Head — a Coon Dog!” originally ran in the January 1949 issue of Outdoor Life. IT WAS MAC who brought the new dog home. We had argued for a month, he and George and I, as to whether we ...

1 of 4 — Franky Hatton and Cletis pose in front of the gravestones of Hatton's champion coon hounds at Coon Dog Cemetery. Seventy-five years ago, Key Underwood and his raccoon-hunting dog Troop had a ...

It’s cold, damp and almost midnight. Josh Brones is prowling deserted back roads amid flat farmland near the Sacramento River. He’s leaning halfway out the window of his pickup, listening for the ...

FLOYD -- For some residents of urban and suburban neighborhoods the howl of a hound is not always a welcome sound. But out here in the Floyd County woods on a chilly night in early March, the baying ...

In order to be buried at Coon Dog Cemetery in northern Alabama, a dog must have a proven track record for hunting raccoons. It's a tradition that... Seventy-five years ago, Key Underwood and his ...