Posts from WaynamoJim in thread „Hopalong Cassidy (1952-1954)“

Quote from Stumpy

I never could understand Lamour's popularity with Western readers. I just never could get that interested in his books.

In Western writers, I started out reading Luke Short, then went to Will Henry and Clay Fisher (same guy with different pseudonyms). I thought Will Henry's "No Survivors" and "From Where the Sun Now Stands" were two of the best Western stories I ever read. For years, I was convinced that Costner's "Dances With Wolves" was made from "No Survivors" but then learned it was another writer.

And I've always enjoyed Lamours books. Probably read at least 90% of his stuff, and more than once. I've also read William Johnstone, Ralph Compton, Matt Braun, Terry Johnston, Owen Wisters The Virginian, Alan Lemay, Elmore "Dutch" Leonard, and Elmer Kelton.

I enjoyed reading the Mulford books about Hopalong Cassidy. Louis Lamour also wrote a few just a few years before he died that I read and they were also very good.

Quote from chester7777

Don't you wish you still had that outfit.

Chester

Yeah, but it would be a little tight.

I think when I was about 5 or 6, one Christmas I got a Hopalong Cassidy cowboy outfit. Black hat, shirt, pants, boots, gunbelt with two white handled six guns. Thought it was the greatest thing in the world. Now I can dress just like my favorite tv cowboy. Trouble is, my brother, who was a year younger, got the same thing. So, there were two Hoppys in our house.

Hopalong Cassidy was probably the first cowboy show and movie I liked as a kid. I even got a Hopalong Cassidy outfit one year for Christmas. Complete with black pants, shirt and hat and two gun rig. I was in 7th heaven over that. Of course, another year or two later, I got a Cisco Kid outfit. But Cassidy was the first. Years later, I began reading all the Clarence Mulford Cassidy books and some that Louis LaMour wrote. Quite a bit of difference in the Hopalong Cassidy in print and the one on screen. In the books, he was much younger than portrayed by Bill Boyd and he even had a girlfriend. He was also more likely to shoot to kill if he had to.