Rain dropped between bare branches and into a zone of red light. At times the drops looked like flakes. Merely an illusion, but fitting in an illusionary scene: a black cloak surrounded us, the woods ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An old illustration showing two coonhounds fighting with a raccoon in a river. (Illustration by John Gould / Outdoor Life) You go ...

FLOYD -- For some residents of urban and suburban neighborhoods the howl of a hound is not always a welcome sound. But out here in the Floyd County woods on a chilly night in early March, the baying ...

1 of 4 — Franky Hatton and Cletis pose in front of the gravestones of Hatton's champion coon hounds at Coon Dog Cemetery. Seventy-five years ago, Key Underwood and his raccoon-hunting dog Troop had a ...