![]() Old Yeller was the novel that Gipson considered his best work. Old Yeller has two sequels – Savage Sam (1962), which also became a Walt Disney film in 1963, and Little Arliss, published posthumously in 1978. His novel Old Yeller won the Newbery honor, and was adapted into a 1957 Walt Disney Studios film. ![]() ![]() His additional works included The Home Place (later filmed as Return of the Texan, a 1962 Western starring Dale Robertson and Joanne Dru), Big Bend: A Homesteader's Story, Cowhand: The Story of a Working Cowboy, The Trail-Driving Rooster, and Recollection Creek. Hound-Dog Man, published in 1947, established Gipson's reputation when it became a Doubleday Book-of-the-Month Club selection and sold over 250,000 copies in its first year of publication. In 1946, his first full-length book, The Fabulous Empire: Colonel Zack Miller's Story, was published. ![]() In the 1940s, Gipson began writing short stories with a western theme, which proved to be prototypes for his longer works of fiction that followed. ![]()
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