Walk the Read
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By: Meghan Saar 03/01/2008
Fred Gipson
Fred Gipson’s hometown of Mason, Texas, pays tribute to the novelist, best known for his 1956 Old Yeller. You’ll find a life-sized bronze memorializing the boy and dog in the library. The Newbery Award-winning book chronicled how an ugly stray dog, Old Yeller, helped a young boy Travis and his family survive on the Texas frontier while his father was away on a cattle drive to Abilene.You can learn about the writer through photographs, his typewriter, his manuscripts and his personal memorabilia.
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The reconstructed Fort Mason was Robert E. Lee’s last command in the U.S. army. It’s found on the Texas Forts Trail, so if you have more time to drive around, continue on the 650-mile route to visit other frontier forts.
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