Central Kansas Library System

Discusses the prairie dog and its distribution, classification, society, burrow, behavior, and the controversy over its control.

It's early morning two days before Christmas of 1937 and ten year old Ralph has just finished gathering eggs. He sees black smoke rising up by the highway a half mile north of their farm in north central Kansas, where he lives with his mother and step-father. The smoke is from a terrible traffic accident and fire. Ralph finds the lone survivor, a Samoyed dog, that was thrown clear, but injured. The collar tag identifies the dog as "Snow." Ralph cares...