Hopalong Cassidy Bar-20 book, 1906

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I didn't want to hijack the real interesting Louis L'Amour thread so here goes. I found this book at the flea market years ago for a couple bucks but never read it. Just looking it up I guess it's the first Hoppy book by Clarence Mulford and says 1906,1907 by Outing Publishing Co. I have a giant library, all non fiction. I never read fiction but think I might attempt this one. Can anyone shed light on this book and if there's anything particularly special about it being 1st print (I think) of the first Hoppy book?


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When I was 5-7 YOA I had a book and a record-might have been a 78! IIRC you listened to the record, and followed along with the pics in the book. When you heard the spurs jangle, you turned the page. Of course, this was much later than the book you have-hop a long really had a good run.
 
I'm more interested in the picture to the left of the book. Is that girl a car hop, or what? I miss those.

I read fiction, and read a Hopalong Cassidy book or two as a kid, but have no idea when they were printed. I don't have any now.
 
My apologies Belch, But like T-star I was distracted...
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Saturday morning on STZEWS, they play two shows of Hoppy, when I was kid, I never missed his show, thought it was the best, now that I'm almost 71, can't believe how corny that show was watching it again.
 
I've got all 66 movies he made and all the 55 TV shows that were broadcast, some of which were his movies cut down to 28 minutes. Watched two tonight as a matter of fact.

I never thought corny was a word to describe Hoppy or his shows/movies, and I especially like when he comes on after the TV show to address the Moms and Dads and youngsters with some great advice, different every week, like watching when crossing the street, the railroad tracks, don't leave your rain gear at the school and don't forget to go to Sunday School.

He, unlike a number of other heros of that age, actually investigated and checked out each item with the Hoppy logo on it to make sure it was safe for the kids, and would actually work and was not too fragile. I had most of it and it lasted lots longer than the other stuff. I gave it away in late 68-early 69 after coming home from the Service.

William Boyd and his wife Grace will always be my heros.

Bob
 
Hopalong Cassidy books by Tex Burns (aka Louis L'Amour)

I think the saga of the four Hopalong Cassidy books written by Louis L'Amour is interesting. For thirty-eight years he denied that he had ever written any of them. Louis L'Amour's web page sheds some light on the issue.

In the spring and summer of 1950, Louis L'Amour wrote four stories about Hopalong Cassidy. He used the pen name Tex Burns and the books were commissioned by Doubleday's Double D Western imprint. The Rustlers of West Fork, Trail to Seven Pines, Riders of High Rock and Trouble Shooter were the first four novels that he had ever published.

When asked, he told people that he had never written about Hopalong Cassidy, that he had never written as Tex Burns. At autograph sessions he would refuse to sign the Hopalong books that fans would occasionally bring. And for years he worried that these books which he tried so hard to ignore would be reprinted and brought back into circulation. He kept on denying he wrote those books until he died.
 
There's such a difference in the character of the man, Hopalong Cassidy in the movies/TV shows/comic books and the novels written by Mulford and L'Amour.

My wife just finished listening to the first book by Mulford on an Audio CD. Said she was amazed at the difference. Liked him in the book, she said, but just like a totally different person or a totally different series.

She's getting ready to start the first of L'Amour's Hoppy books on CD but he's been a bit bogged down taking care of me.

Bob

Bob
 
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