Beanie lived on a lonesome farm, close to a big, dark forest in the Great Smoky Mountains. The nearest neighbors were bears. LITTLE BLACK WILD BEARS. Middle-sized black wild bears. GREAT BIG BLACK WILD BEARS.

Beanie thought and thought about bears until he did something about them. He got out his trusty, make-believe gun. He put a candy bar in his pocket so he would be ready for anything. He and his puppy, Tough Enough, went running away from home—running away on a bear hunt. And then their troubles began.

In this story of mounting suspense the Carrolls have set a series of boy-and-puppy adventures against an authentic Smoky Mountain background. Here is a book of great forests, great mountains, and little lives.

Beanie has the pace and the flavor and the humor of an old-time mountain ballad. It has some of Ruth Carroll's most distinguished pictures, drawn from life—pictures that linger at times on the homely details of farm life and at times give us the majesty of the soaring Smokies.

From the dust jacket