There’s just no stopping little Willy. Determined to keep their farm going — and to give his ailing grandfather a reason to live — the ten-year-old boy hitches his dog,Searchlightto the plow and harvests the whole potato crop. Now little Willy needs five hundred dollars to pay off ten years’ back taxesor the farm will be taken away from them. Dauntless as everhe stakes everything on one wild hope: that he and Searchlight can outrun the best dogsled racers in the country — including the legendary IndianStone Fox. But the huge mountain man is every bit as intent on winning the big prize money as little Willy is. And he and his five beautiful Samoyeds haven’t lost a race yet…. Based on a Rocky Mountain legendJohn Reynolds Gardiner’s story — like its herolittle Willy — has all the ingredients of a winnerright down to the unforeseen drama at the finish line.