My book that I'm reading takes place in the bottom of the mountains in Cherokee Country.
the point to where i read up to in the book Billy and his dogs have been coon hunting all night and his dogs ran a coon up into a tree and Billy made a promise to his dogs. his promise to them was if you get a coon in the tree ill take care of the rest. Well it just so happens that Billy's dogs ,old Dan and little Ann,ran the coon up into the biggest sycamore tree in the bottoms and the whole were the coon went into was so high up there he couldn't climb the tree,so Billy had to cut it down and it took him two and a half days and nights to do it.