Bigger

The Civil War has ended, yet 12-year old Tyler still awaits the return of his father, Black Jack Bohannon, who left four years earlier, in 1861, with General Jo Shelby's Iron Cavalry Brigade of Missouri. Learning that Shelby and his men are on their way to Mexico to keep the Confederacy alive, Tyler sets out to find his father and bring him home. He undertakes the 800-mile journey on foot, with only a few dollars in his pocket and is joined along the way by a strange ornery "devil" dog he names Bigger. Bigger becomes an inseparable friend and protector.