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Fred Gipson

Fred Gipson. By Francis Ruml. Fred Gipson was born February 7, 1908 in Mason, Texas. In his early years he worked at various farms and ranches around his home community in Mason, Texas. Fred’s Education.

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Fred Gipson

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  1. Fred Gipson By Francis Ruml

  2. Fred Gipson was born February 7, 1908 in Mason, Texas. In his early years he worked at various farms and ranches around his home community in Mason, Texas.

  3. Fred’s Education • Fred attended Mason High School and graduated in 1926. He decided to keep farming after high school until 1933 when he entered college University of Texas. Fred picked up a part-time job being a reporter for the Daily Texan and the Ranger. While in school he was offered a reporter job at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, so he decided not to graduate and accept the job.

  4. Fred is moving up in the writing world! • Fred wrote for two more newspapers and then had the opportunity to start writing stories and selling them to Pulp Western and Liberty-Look magazines. Fred’s stories were becoming very popular so he started publishing books.

  5. Fred’s Books • The Fabulous Empire: Colonel Zach Miller’s Story (1946) • Hound-Dog Man (This made his reputation selling over 250,000 copies in 1949) • The Home Place (1950) • Big Bend: A Homesteader’s Story (1952) • Cowhand: The Story of a Working Cowboy (1953) • The Trail Driving Rooster (1955) • Recollection Creek (1955) • Old Yeller (His biggest seller from 1956) • Savage Sam (1962)

  6. Fred’s Awards • Recipient of the William Allen White Award • Recipient of the first Sequoyah Book Award • Television-Radio Annual Writers Award • He won the Northwest Pacific Award

  7. -“What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem might cruel and unfair, but that's how life is a part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad” Fred Gipson

  8. Work Cited • http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp?pers_id=2409 • http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/75091.Fred_Gipson

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