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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clot of listeners would form around Underwood as he talked, and every once in a while someone would offer encouragement in a most exuberant dialect. "At dogud tree!" What the man said was, "That dog could tree," meaning Troop had an unerring nose for raccoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: a Coon Dog Indeed | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...Fellow name of Files lived off in here," Underwood was saying. "He ran a whiskey still until the revenuers got him, and he pawned the dog off. Back in those days everyone carried an ax." Underwood then began to wonder aloud what axes had to do with Files and the whiskey still and the dog. "Sometimes I get started on this tale, and it drifts off on me," he said, picking up the trail of the story again. "Anyway, Troop was ten years old, and I bought him from Files' wife for $75. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: a Coon Dog Indeed | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...with a toy poodle on a leash, a dog not much bigger than the word dog, hollered, "Hey, Mr. Underwood, where you want me to bury this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: a Coon Dog Indeed | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...dog had a sweeter disposition than my late wife, which is goin' aways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: a Coon Dog Indeed | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

...deceased. A lot of Old Blues went down into the ground here, as well as a lot of Old Reds. The headstone for Blue Kate said STRUCK BY CAR , WHILE RUNNING A RACCOON. IN SIX YEARS OF OWNERSHIP TREED MORE THAN 200. The stone for Rusty said A COON DOG INDEED with the qualifier underscored twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: a Coon Dog Indeed | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

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