![]() The historic Odeon Theatre in Mason Texas where the world premiere of the Disney movie Old Yeller was held Disney’s film version starring San Angelo native Fess Parker, Tommy Kirk and Dorothy McGuire followed the next year. His first book, The Fabulous Empire, was a moderate success when published in 1946, but it would be Hound-dog Man, released a year later which established his reputation in literary circles.įive more books would be released before Old Yeller (his favorite) was published in 1956. The Gipson family soon included two sons: Mike born in 1940 and Beck in 1945. ![]() Newspaper work was never his forte, but it greatly increased his pool of personalities for later use. Also, he had begun selling short stories to pulp Westerns and slick magazines such as Collier’s and Look. He moved to San Angelo where he worked at the Standard-Times and soon married Tommie Wynn. Frank Dobie, yet he quit school before graduation to become a reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. ![]() ![]() Gipson left home to attend the University of Texas at Austin where he encountered folklorist J. His hardscrabble upbringing never embittered him because he knew a fellow could always retreat to the natural world of creeks and critters. A boy and his dog participating in an Old Yeller look alike contest at event in downtown Masonīorn in 1908 to humble, farming parents, he grew up with a brother and four sisters (Stella also became a writer). ![]()
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