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Wilson Rawls had meny jobs befor he started writing” he worked as carpenter in Mexico five major dam projects
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Wilson rawl was born in 1913 and died in 1976
the book was erigenly named the secret of the red fern “
Wilson Rawls burned the first version of were the red firn grows

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Jacob “He worked as a carpenter in Mexico and South America”.

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One thing I learned about Wilson Rawls is that the family was so poor they couldn’t even afford paper and pencils. In the text it states,” At the age of ten, he decided to write a powerful boy and dog story of his own. He couldn’t afford paper or pencils, so the first words Rawls wrote were quite literally,‘Scratched into the dust of a country road and the sand banks of a river.’”

Another thing I learned was before he became a writer during the Great Depression he had to take any available jobs so he worked as a carpenter, he worked on 5 major dam projects, Allan highway, lumberyards ect.

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“The Rawls children did not attend school.”

His first scrips he could not afford paper and pencil so he used the dust in the side of the road. He carved words on the side if the road.

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"After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches.

I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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Wilson Rawls was very poor but still managed to write great books “he couldn’t afford paper or pencils so the first words Rawls wrote were quite literally scratched into the dust of a country road.”

Wilson Rawls inspired children and adults not just in 22 states he visited but around the world to

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When he asked for advice from hid father, he told him he should keep trying, and never give up.
In paragraph 4, it says,
“When Wilson Rawls asked for advice, his father told him that he could accomplish whatever he wanted by trying and never give up.”
And that’s just what he did.

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Wilson first started writing where the red fern grows when he was 10. “ so the first words Rawls wrote were quite literally scratched into the dust of a country road and the sand banks of a river.”

He did not go to school, he learned to read by listening to his mom and the practicing himself.

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Wilson Rawls was a amazing author

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Wilson was raised on a farm in the Ozark Mountains, which would become the setting for his novels. Since there was no schools near by he had a small education. During the Great Depression  Wilson worked as a carpenter.

“The Great Depression, which started with the stock crash in 1929, forced Rawls to take any job he could find.” This shows that Rawls was not able to be an author instead he was a carpenter.

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(1913-84). American author Wilson Rawls wrote only two books, but they have become classics in children's literature. They appealed to young people, especially because of his fully developed animal characters.

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in Scraper, Oklahoma. He was raised on a farm in the Ozark Mountains, which would become the setting for his novels. Since there were no schools nearby, Rawls had little formal education. However, his mother read stories to him as a child and taught him how to read. He was especially influenced by Jack London's Call of the Wild. During the Great Depression, Rawls went to work as a carpenter, finding jobs in Mexico, South America, Alaska, and throughout the United States. He did not begin writing full-time until 1959.

Rawls's first novel was Where the Red Fern Grows. It was published first in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post and then in book form in 1961. It tells the story of a young boy and his hunting dogs. The book was made into a movie in 1974 and in 2003. Rawls's second novel, Summer of the Monkeys, was published in 1976. It follows the adventures of a boy who captures and returns a group of monkeys that have escaped from a circus. The book received several awards, including the Sequoyah Children's Book Award, the Golden Archer Award, and the William Allen White Children's Book Award. It was made into a movie in 1998.

Rawls spent much of his later life as a motivational speaker, encouraging young people to read and write. He died on December16, 1984, in Marshfield, Wisconsin.

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(1913-84). American author Wilson Rawls wrote only two books, but they have become classics in children's literature. They appealed to young people, especially because of his fully developed animal characters. Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in Scraper, Oklahoma.

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Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in the Ozark country of Scraper, Oklahoma. In 1958, he gave up on his dream and burned all his work.In a three-week burst, Rawls wrote Where the Red Fern Grows, a highly autobiographical and poignant account of a boy, his two hounds, and raccoon-hunting in the Ozark Mountains.Rawls died in 1984 in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

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One thing about Wilson Rawls is that during the Great Depression, his family moved to find work. Another thing about him was that he burned all of his work in 1958 but his wife told him to keep on going because life is Highschool Musical so that’s cool I guess.

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"After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches.

I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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He was born on September 24, 1913. It took him over 20 years to write Where the Red Fern Grows.

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"After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches.

I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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Taught to read by his mother, he was  affected by the novels of Jack London and wanted to be a writer. He had little education. During the Great Depression of the 1930s he was a hobo and moved around the country collecting stories along the way. He usually made his living at different places,once working on the Alcan Highway in Alaska.

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RAWLS, WOODROW WILSON (1913-1984).

Born in Scraper, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, on September 24, 1913, to Minzy O. and Winnie Hatfield Rawls, novelist and short-story writer Woodrow Wilson Rawls published a widely popular children's novel, Where the Red Fern Grows, in 1961. He grew up on the family farm, which was his mother's Cherokee allotment. Taught to read by his mother, he was profoundly affected by the novels of Jack London and resolved to be a writer. He had little formal education. During the Great Depression of the 1930s he hoboed around the country, collecting stories along the way. He usually made his living as a laborer, once working on the Alcan Highway in Alaska. He married Sophie Styczinski in 1958 while working for the Atomic Energy Commission in Idaho.

Rawls's childhood experiences in the eastern Oklahoma hills provided the material for his fictional characters and settings. Where the Red Fern Grows, about a country boy who finds and trains two hunting dogs, was twice adapted as a motion picture and released in 1974 and 2003. The 1974 version was filmed in and around Tahlequah, Oklahoma. His second and final book, The Summer of the Monkeys, about a boy who tried to catch monkeys that had escaped from a carnival, appeared in 1976. The novel won the William Allen White Children's Book Award and the Oklahoma Library Association's Sequoyah Children's Book Award in 1979. Both of his novels were set in eastern Oklahoma. A popular speaker, Rawls spent much of his spare time visiting schools to encourage students to read and write. Wilson Rawls resided in Idaho Falls, Idaho, from 1958 to 1975. He then moved to Wisconsin, and he died of cancer at Marshfield on December 16, 1984.

See also: MARQUIS JAMES, JAMES MYERS THOMPSON

Bibliography

Ann Conmire, ed., Something About the Author, Vol. 22 (Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Company, 1981).

Idaho Falls (Idaho) Post-Register, 18 December 1984.

"Sequoyah Book Award Winner Traces Career," Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), 23 March 1979.

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Born in Scraper, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, on September 24, 1913, to Minzy O. and Winnie Hatfield Rawls, novelist and short-story writer Woodrow Wilson Rawls published a widely popular children's novel, Where the Red Fern Grows, in 1961. He grew up on the family farm, which was his mother's Cherokee allotment.

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Two things I learned Wilson Rawls is that he was home schooled and when the Great Depression came around he couldn’t write because he had no grammar. The second thing I learned is that because he didn’t no about grammar in 1958, he burned all his work.
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"After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches.

I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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I don't have the type of memory that allows me to keep track of all the books I've read and what happens in them, but I do recall one of the first stories to leave have an impact on me. Like in many schools, Where the Red Fern Grows (1961) by Wilson Rawls was required fifth-grade reading. Even though it was set in the Ozarks more than a thousand miles away and several generations before my time, it was one of the earliest novels that I could relate to. About an impoverished boy and his love for his hunting dogs, it was also the first book that made me cry.

It was only in recent years that I learned what it took Wilson Rawls to write that book. That story is nearly as powerful, and also worth telling.

Woodrow (Wilson) Rawls grew up poor in the Ozark mountains in Oklahoma. His mother did her best to teach him how to read and write but didn't have a formal education herself. When a small schoolhouse was finally built, he and his sisters had to cross a river to get there, holding onto a rope to make sure they didn't get washed away. The school was run by a rotation of local mothers that did their best to give the simple instruction they could.

Fortunately, his grandparents ran a store nearby, and they occasionally ordered books for the Rawls children. When Wilson's mother read Call of the Wild (1903) to him, he immediately decided that he would write a "boy and a dog" story someday. Because they could not afford paper, Wilson would go to the river and pack down the sand along the banks. There he would use a stick to write about the things he saw and heard around him.

When the Great Depression hit, the Rawls, like many other families, packed up all their possessions and headed towards California. They made it as far as New Mexico, where their car died. Wilson's father was fortunate enough to get work in a nearby town. However, it became apparent that there were too many children to feed, so Wilson left home. For years he lived as an itinerant moving across the country, looking for work wherever he could find it, and often going hungry.

No matter the circumstances, however, Wilson never stopped writing. He looked for paper bags in the garbage bins outside of stores and cut the bottoms out, or made strips out of boxes found near railway stations. He wrote his stories on these scraps and carried them with him wherever he went. Because he did not have a formal education, he could not spell or use punctuation. His stories did not have paragraphs, and wherever he took a breath when reading them out loud he put a dash. Even when he was lucky enough to find a permanent job with an oil rig he stayed in the bunks on the weekends and wrote while the other men went into town, although never sharing his work.

Eventually, Wilson met Sophie Styczinski, whom he would later marry. At that time he had completed five novel manuscripts that he hid away in a trunk, one of them being the children's novel Where the Red Fern Grows (then titled The Hounds of Youth). However, because the punctuation and grammar were so bad, he knew they couldn't be published. He never told Sophie about his dream of being a writer. In fact, before their wedding, he burned everything he wrote to make sure she never found out about his failed attempt at being a writer.

However it happened, several months after the wedding Wilson broke down and confessed that his biggest desire in life was to be an author. Sophie was educated herself, and said that she could help him with his grammatical issues. She convinced him to quit his job and write a book. He rewrote Where the Red Fern Grows entirely from memory over the course of six weeks. Sophie corrected the grammar and convinced him that it needed to be longer to be published. Eventually, it made its way to the Saturday Evening Post as a serial and then to Doubleday to be debuted as a novel.

The story behind this classic book doesn't stop there, however. Doubleday (in addition to changing the title from The Hounds of Youth to Where the Red Fern Grows) marketed it as an adult novel. As Wilson Rawls put it, it "broke his heart" to see his work not reaching the hands of the children it was meant for. Where the Red Fern Grows did not sell very well, and after six years was in danger of being put out of print and lost forever. Nonetheless, an executive at Doubleday decided to give it one last chance by organizing a talk for Wilson at a teacher's conference to see if that could help it garner a little attention.

Although Wilson was petrified to stand up in front of the several thousand people in attendance, he found the courage for the sake of the novel. The teachers were so impressed by his speech, however, that they went back to their respective schools and began sharing the book with their students. Eventually, by a word-of-mouth campaign, Where the Red Fern Grows became one of the most iconic pieces of classroom literature in American history.

Wilson Rawls would eventually publish one more book, Summer of the Monkeys (1976), and spend most of his later years traveling to rural schools across the country and giving a speech titled "Dreams Can Come True." The recording was recovered by a man named Jim Trelease, who sought to unearth the story behind Wilson Rawls' life. Rawls' talk was regarded as one of the most influential speeches of the time. As the title suggests, its message was simple. However, by sharing his experience of overcoming poverty, a lack of education, and his own embarrassment, he empowered an entire generation of American children.

Wilson Rawls passed away in 1984 after battling cancer. There's no doubt he would be delighted and humbled by all the schoolchildren that still read Where the Red Fern Grows.

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Wilson rawls didn’t have paper, so he wrote on the sand bank.

Wilson learned to read by listening to his mother read aloud.

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He was born on September 24 1913 and he spent more than 20 years writing Where the Red Fern Grows and published his book in 1968, “He couldn’t afford paper or pencils, so the first words Rawls wrote were literally scratched into the dust of country road” Rawls said that he would have ;irked to show a copy of the book to his father and say “It took a long time, Dad, but I made it.”

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"After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches.

I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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He was born on September 24 1913 and it took him almost 20 years to write Where The Red Fern Grows and he likes coonhounds.

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I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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Wilson Rawls was born on September 24th, 1913 in the Ozark Mountains, Oklahoma. Wilson Rawls was homeschooled since there were no schools near him. He married Sophie Styczinski in 1958. Wilson Rawls published “Where The Red Fern Grows” in 1961. It took Wilson Rawls about 20 years to write “Where The Red Fern Grows” and he loves coonhounds.

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Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913 in the ozark mountains. Wilson Rawls loves coonhounds which is why he made a coonhound one of the main characters in his most famous book, “where the red fern grows.” Which took him about 20 years to start writing. Fun fact, Wilson Rawls burned his first copy of  “where the red fern grows” because he said to a reporter that he knew it was just pure trash. During the great depression in 1929 Wilson had to get any job he could find, in the book it said “The Great Depression in 1929 forced Wilson Rawls to get any job he could find.” Wilson Rawls was an amazing author and person who inspires many people today.

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Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in the Ozark country of Scraper, Oklahoma.I know this because in the text it says “Rawls grew up on a small farms in Scraper and Tahlequah , Oklahoma.” His family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1935, and he came home each fall to work to get money for his family and hunt for food.

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I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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Wilson Rawls was born in September 24, 1913 in Scraper Oklahoma. He was raised on a farm in the Ozark Mountains. In his lifetime Wilson Rawls made two books his first novel the Where the Red Fern Grows published in 1961 which Wilson Rawls burned up. A text that shows this is, “ Wilson Rawls burned the first version of Where the Red Fern Grows. “ I was sure it’s was pure trash,” Rawls told a reporter.” The Red Fern Grows was also published into a movie narrator by Wilson Rawls himself. His second novel Summer of the Monkeys which was published in 1976. This book received multiple awards and was made into a movie in 1998. Wilson ended up dying in December16, 1984. With one regret in the text it shows,” He would have liked to have shown a copy of his book to his father and say, “It took a long time, Dad, I made it.”

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(1913-84). American author Wilson Rawls wrote only two books, but they have become classics in children's literature. They appealed to young people, especially because of his fully developed animal characters.

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in Scraper, Oklahoma. He was raised on a farm in the Ozark Mountains, which would become the setting for his novels. Since there were no schools nearby, Rawls had little formal education. However, his mother read stories to him as a child and taught him how to read. He was especially influenced by Jack London's Call of the Wild. During the Great Depression, Rawls went to work as a carpenter, finding jobs in Mexico, South America, Alaska, and throughout the United States. He did not begin writing full-time until 1959.

Rawls's first novel was Where the Red Fern Grows. It was published first in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post and then in book form in 1961. It tells the story of a young boy and his hunting dogs. The book was made into a movie in 1974 and in 2003. Rawls's second novel, Summer of the Monkeys, was published in 1976. It follows the adventures of a boy who captures and returns a group of monkeys that have escaped from a circus. The book received several awards, including the Sequoyah Children's Book Award, the Golden Archer Award, and the William Allen White Children's Book Award. It was made into a movie in 1998.

Rawls spent much of his later life as a motivational speaker, encouraging young people to read and write. He died on December16, 1984, in Marshfield, Wisconsin.

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(1913-84). American author Wilson Rawls wrote only two books, but they have become classics in children's literature. They appealed to young people, especially because of his fully developed animal characters. Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in Scraper, Oklahoma.

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Woodrow Wilson Rawls was named after President Woodrow Wilson.
The text states, “Wilson Rawls burned the first version of Where the Red Fern Grows.”

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I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 19113, in an ozark part of Oklahoma.

It took Wilson Rawls nearly twenty years to write the book”Where The Red Fern Grows”. Wilson loves coonhounds, owning a bluetick coonhound himself.

His best known books are “Where The Red Fern Grows” And “Summer Of The Monkeys”. Wilson Rawls died a happy husband.

Rawls’s book “Where The Red Fern Grows” Did not sell
for the first several years after it was published.

“Born in 1913, Woodrow Wilson Rawls was named for President Woodrow Wilson, who took office that year.”

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I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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Wilson Rawls was born in September 28 1913.

“The Rawls children did not attend school regularly. Wilson learned to read by listening to his mother read aloud. He and his sister would then take turns reading the material again.”

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"After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the first time I saw my pups in the box at the depot. I thought of the fifty dollars, the nickels and dimes, and the fishermen and blackberry patches.

I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

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