Long before Lassie, there was the magnificent Lad, the first of the many Sunnybank collies whose exploits Terhune chronicled in a series of books including Lad a Dog (1919) (originally titled Lad Stories and appearing in magazines such as Red Book, The Saturday Evening Post and the Atlantic Monthly), Bruce (1920), Buff: A Collie (1921), Wolf (1925), Gray Dawn (1927) and my beloved Lad of Sunnybank