Outlaws of the Sourland

Wild Dogs, Rustlers, Midnight chases thru swampy woods. Its a great story, an easy read that I discovered back in the 60s while I was staying home from school, sick in bed. Its the story of a young man who looses a bunch of his sheep to a pack of wild dogs. The sheep were going to finance his first year of college. The young man is forced to wait a year to go to college and spends the year hunting the pack of dogs. In the process he learns some important things about himself and the area where he lives.