Old Yeller
by Fred Gipson
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Fred Gipson
Fred Gipson made a career out of spinning Western-themed stories for pulp magazines at first, and later for full-length book publishers. Popular in his time for the 1947 Hound-Dog Man, Gipson is best known today as the author of Old Yeller. Published in 1956, Disney adapted it for the screen in 1957, and the dingy “yeller” dog of Gipson’s imagination has ever since imprinted itself on the imaginations of readers and moviegoers of all ages all over the world.
Gipson himself had always been fond of true adventure tales, feeling as though he learned more about history from these stories than he did from stale, standardized history books.
