Clarence E. Mulford was the author of Hopalong Cassidy

Hopalong Cassidy

Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of popular short stories and twenty-eight novels based on the character....

, written in 1904. He wrote it in Fryeburg, Maine

Maine

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, United States, and the many stories and 28 novels were followed by radio, feature film, television, and comic book versions. Clarence was born in Streator, Illinois

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. He died of complications from surgery in Portland, Maine

Portland, Maine

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. He set aside much of his money from his book for local charities.

Hopalong Cassidy novels

• Bar-20 (1906)
• The Orphan (1908)
• Hopalong Cassidy (1910)
• Bar-20 Days (1911)
• Buck Peters, Ranchman (1912)
• The Coming of Cassidy (1913)
• The Man from Bar-20 (1918)
• Johnny Nelson (1920)
• The Bar-20 Three (1921)
• Tex (1922)
• Bring Me His Ears (1922)
• Black Buttes (1923)
• Rustlers' Valley (1924)
• Hopalong Cassidy Returns (1924)
• Cottonwood Gulch (1925)
• Hopalong Cassidy's Protege (1926)
• Bar-20 Rides Again (1926)
• Corson of the JC (1927)
• Mesquite Jenkins (1928)
• Me and Shorty (1929)
• Deputy Sheriff (1930)
• Hopalong Cassidy and the Eagles Brood (1931)
• Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed (1932)
• The Round-Up (1933)
• Trail Dust (1934)
• On the Trail of the Tumbling T (1935)
• Hopalong Cassidy Takes Cards (1937)
• Hopalong Cassidy Serves A Writ (1941)

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