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Hopalong Cassidy
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Hopalong Cassidy & Bar 20
Created by Clarence E. Mulford (1883-1956)
By way of introduction ...
JOHNNY NELSON speaks his mind: "I'm from th' Bar-20, Texas. I'm five feet ten; weigh a hundred an' sixty: blue eyes, brown hair-; single an' sober, now an' aIways. I write left-handed; eat an' shoot with both; wears pants, smokes tobacco, an' I'm as handy a cow-puncher as ever threw a rope. Oh yes; modesty is one of my only glarin' fault. Some people call me 'Dearly Beloved'; others, other things; but I answer to any old handle at grub pile. My name is Johnny Nelson, an' I never had no other, 'cept 'Kid' to my friends. I'm thirty years old, minus some. An' - oh, yes; I'm from th' Tin Cup, Montanny. I get things twisted at times, an' this shore looks like one of 'em." "I allus say Bar-20 when I speaks off-hand an' have more on my mind than my hair (...) You see, I was cussed near born on th' old Bar-20 - worked there ever since I was a boy." "I worked with the Bar-20 till Buck went up to run th' Tin Cup. Cowthieves kept him so busy that our new foreman went up to help him. He stayed there. Red got lonesome for Hoppy, and shore followed. Skinnv was lost without th' pair of 'em, so he up an' follered Red. Lanky, missin' Skinny, got plumb restless an' takes th' trail a month later. Then a railroad crosses our ranch an' begins layin' out two towns, so Pete gets on his hind-laigs, licks a section boss, an' chases after Lanky. I'm gettin' lonesomer and lonesomer all th' time, but I manage to stick on th' job by pullin' Ieather, becausce I was drawin' down a foreman's pay. That ranch had five foremen in three months; an' they all was good ones, 'cept mebby me. But when I saw barbed wire on th' sidin', fence posts along th' right of way, sheep on th' hills, an' ploughs plumb ruilnin' good grass land, I hunts up that same section boss, licks him again in mem'ry of Pete, packed my war bag, an' loped north after Pete. Th' oId ranch has gone plumb to h-l!" "Well, up on th' old Tin Cup, Buck got, married. Hoppy had been before he left' Texas. Tex Ewalt's gettin' th' disease now. He quit drinkin', card playin', an' most everything worth doin'. He ain't fit company for a sheep no more. Not knowing he was framin' up th' play, I loafed along an' didn't propose quick enough. That's once more he saved my life, Th' air's plumb full of matrimony on th' Tin Cup. There was two black-eyed sisters in Twin River - Lanky takes one an' Skinny th' other. They tossed for choice..Pete, who was matrimony galled, raised such a ruction at th' doin's that there just wasn't no livin' with him. His disposition was full of sand cracks, an' he'd ruther fight than eat. We pulled off a couple of hummers, me an' him. "Every time I'd try to get some of my friends to go to town for a regular, old time, quiet evenin' I found I didn't have no friends left; an' th' wimmin all joined hands an' made me feel like a brand-blotter. I was awful popular, I was! Ever try to argue with a bunch of wimmin? It's like a dicky bird chirpin' in a cyclone; he can't even hear hisself "We had a cook once, on th' old Bar-20, that would run' grab a gun if he saw a coyote ten miles away. That's th' way they acted about me, all but Mary, who is Mrs. Hopalong. She had th' idea she could make me all over again; an' I wouldn't a-cared if she hadn't kept tryin' all th' time. At first all my ex-friends would sneak around an' sort of apologize to me for th' way their wives acted; an' then, d-d if they didn't get to sidin' with th' wives! Whenever I wandered into sight th' wimmin would cluck to their worse halves, an' scold me like I was a chicken hawk. An' I had lots of advice, too. Nobody called me 'Kid' or 'Johnny' no more. Them days was past. It was that Johnny Nelson; know what I mean? "Red did sneak off to town with me twice - an' drank ginger-ale, an' acted about as free an' happy as a calf with a red-hot old brandin' iron over his flank. He wouldn't play faro because he only had two dollars, an' reckoned he might need it for somethin' before pay-day come around again. That was only on pay-day, too. An' that was Red, Red Connors! Great polecats! Why, there was a time when Red - oh, what's th' use! "Hopalong - you call him that now when his wife's around! - he was something on some board, or something; an' he said he had to set a good example. Wouldn't even play penny ante! Think of it! There was a time when a camel, with all his stummicks, an' a Gatlin' gun on his back, couldn't a follored th' example he set. I was just as happy as a bobcat in a trap - an' about as peaceful. There wasn't nothin' I could do, if I stayed up there, but get married; an' that was like hangin' myself to keep from gettin' shot. Then, one day, mrs. Hopalong caught me learnin' William, junior, how to chew tobacco. As if a five-year-old kid hadn't ought to get some manly habits! The Man from Bar-20
Also by Clarence E. Mulford: The Corson series:
Others:
... and in a sort of "reading order":
THE COMING OF CASSIDY (1913). (Danish: Hopalong kommer!) Loosely connected short stories about the start of the Bar 20. Buck, who’s in his thirties, starts the BAR 20 in the 1870ies together with Red Connors and Travis who dies in the first story and is only mentioned. Red is away a couple of weeks to get supplies when Bill Cassidy arrives. Frenchy McAllister and Slippery Trendley are mentioned (page 35). Lanky Smith, an old friend of Buck’s, and Skinny Thompson arrives. Jimme Price arrives. Bill Cassidy becomes Hopalong Cassidy. There are seven men on the Bar 20: Jimmy Price, Ace Fisher, Skinny, Lanky, Red, Hopalong and Buck. Ace Fisher dies and Pete Wilson arrives. Billy Williams arrives,. Sammy Porter arrives, gets married and leaves. Johnny Nelson falls in love and spends a week in the mountains (see also Buck Peters, Ranchman).
TRAIL DUST (1934). Very early story. Hopalong is not married. Johnny is …hardly out of his teens. A trail herd for the Bar 20 with Hopalong, Red Connors, Johnnie Nelson, Lanky Smith, Skinny Thompson, Pete Wilson and Billy Williams working for Buck Peters.
BAR 20 (1907). (Danish: Ranch Nr. 20). Loosely connected short stories about the Bar 20. In the first story Jimmy Price dies (probably the only Bar 20 puncher who dies in the whole saga - aside from Ace Fisher in The Coming of Cassidy, but we never really got to know him). Frenchy McAllister arrives and there is mention of his time with Buck Peters on the Double Y in Montana twenty years ago. Tex Ewalt arrives and tries for a showdown with Hopalong.
BAR 20 DAYS (1911). (Danish: Cowboyliv paa Ranch Nr. 20) Loosely connected short stories with Hopalong, Johnny Nelson, Red Connors, Buck Peters, Pete Wilson, Lanky Smith, Skinny Thompson, Billy Williams and Frenchy McAllister. Also mentioned as working on the Bar 20 are Word Wright, Sandy Lucas and Rick Finn In the End Tex Ewalt arrives to get even with Hopalong and they become friends.
HOPALONG CASSIDY (1910) (Danish: Hopalong Cassidy). Trouble about water rights on the Bar 20. There are also rustlers on the prowl. Hopalong falls in love with the neighbour’s daughter Mary Meeker. Frenchy McAllister dies, and Buck Peters has a letter from his brother George asking him to go to Montana and manage the H2 (shouldn't that be Double Y?) ranch. Hopalong becomes foreman on the Bar 20 and marries Mary Meeker.
BUCK PETERS, RANCHMAN (1912) Tex Ewalt returns from New York where he got married, but his wife was unfaithful so he left her. Hoppy is married. The rest of the crew is still on the Bar 20 except Buck Peters who’s up on the Double Y in Montana to run it for Frenchy McAllister’s brother George. Frenchy has been death some months (page 33). H. Whitby Booth, and Englishman, is sent up to the Double Y by George McAllister to check on Buck Peters for George McAllister. Whitby is in love with Margaret McAllister, George’s daugther and Frenchy’s niece. Tex travels to Twin River in Montana incognito to help Buck. Buck falls in love with The French Rose, Rose la France. Shanghai, the rustler, turns up in the end but disappears again unharmed. There is mention of Johnny's falling in love and spending a week in the mountains (see The Coming of Cassidy).
THE MAN FROM BAR 20 (1918) Johnny Nelson on his own. Buck is now married to The French Rose up in Twin River. Hopalong and Mary are married and have a son, William Jr., and they have also gone up to Montana. Red Connors, Skinny Thompson, Lanky Smith and Pete Wilson follow. Tex Ewalt is also married (again?).
JOHNNIE NELSON (1920) Johnny Nelson on his own. Saves the SV ranch for Arnold and his daughter Margaret (Peggy) and marries her. There’s mention of Nevada in The Buttes, but he does not figure in the story. "I’m ridin’ clear of wimmin. It was wimmin that sent me roamin’ over th’ face of th’ earth, a wanderer. My friends all got married, an’ - oh, well, I drifted." "I used to think Hoppy’s Red Eagle an’ Red’s Ginger was th’ real thing in hossflesh," he told her (his horse), "but they was cows compared to you, Pepper Girl."
THE BAR 20 THREE (1921) Johnny is now married to Peggy. Hopalongs’s wife and son are dead, and Hoppy and Red Connors are visiting Johnny to help him. "Mrs. Johnny," he (Red) said quietly, quickly, "I got to talk fast before Hoppy comes back. He lost his wife an’ boy a month ago - fever - in four days. He’s all broke up. Went loco a little, an’ even came near shootin’ me because I wouldn’t let him go off by hisself. I’ve had one gosh-awful time with him, but finally managed to get him headed this way by talkin’ about Johnny a-plenty. That got him, for th’ kid allus was a sort of son to him."
TEX (1922) Tex’s wife is dead (the first or the second Mrs. Watson?). He works for Buck and French Rose on the Double Y with Pete Wilson. Hopalong and Red are still visiting Johnny and Peggy on the SV ranch. Pickles is mentioned. Tex is over 45 (page 188). Tex helps out Jerry Saunders who has TB and his sister Jane. They all end up with Johnny, Hopalong and Red on the SV ranch. Tex gets Jane Saunders.
HOPALONG CASSIDY RETURNS (1924). (Danish: Hopalong Cassidy vender tilbage) After visiting Johnny and Peggy on the SV ranch Hopalong and Red Connors want to ride down and have a look at the old Bar 20 before they return to Montana. Along the way they run into Mesquite Jenkins and Hoppy wants to teach him all he knows. "Hopalong Cassidy, losing his wife and son through sickness, had broken from the bounds of the Montana ranch and gone off to seek forgetfulness; but despite his plans, he had not gone alone. Red Connors, whose friendship was like granite, had gone with him to see that Hopalong took as good care of his life under these conditions as he had when life meant more to him. They had rambled hither and yon, drifted down to the SV ranch in New Mexico, where their friend and bunkhouse mate, Johnny Nelson, now directed a cattle business of his own. But the passing of time brought a restlessness to Hopalong, and a homesickness to Red, who had left his family to ride herd on his wandering friend. They made certain plans, and were now on their way back to carry out the first of them: they were riding down to visit the old Bar-20 and see what the passing years had done to it."
THE BAR 2O RIDES AGAIN (1926) Johnny Nelson has been shot down on his SV ranch and from Buck Peters’ Double Y comes Hopalong, Red Connors, Lanky Smith, Skinny Thompson, Billy Williams and Pete Wilson, and from his own UX ranch comes Tex Ewalt. Together they fight the rustlers and Nevada in The Buttes.
HOPALONG CASSIDY'S PROTÉGÉ (1926). Also as: Hopalong Cassidy’s Saddle Mate. (Danish: Hopalong Cassidy paa Sporet. Mesquites Hævn) Hopalong and Red Connors are back with Buck Peters and the French Rose on the Double Y (He had been back three weeks …). Buck is sheriff in Twin River and Hopalong and Lanky Smith are deputies. Mesquite is on his way. Red was wounded down in Laramie (?). There is mention of Red’s wife (page 11). Tex is married. Lanky Smith, Skinny Thompson, Pete Wilson and Billy Williams work on the Double Y. Hopalong is ambushed, and Mesquite is sworn in as deputy and with the help of Red Connors and Lanky Smith he catches all twelve rustlers including Shanghai.
MESQUITE JENKINS (1928) Mesquite clears up rustlers around the Lazy S for the widow of Tobe Ricketts, who was killed in an ambush. Mesquite stays on as foreman. Hopalong is sheriff in Twin River after Buck Peters. "He (Mesquite) could wear that badge with far more complacency than he had worn the one Sheriff Peters had pinned on his vest about two years ago." (That was in Hopalong Cassidy's Protege)
"Hopalong Sits In". Short story from "Short Stories Magazine" 1929. Hopalong plays poker like Tex Ewalt tought him. Johnny Nelson is on his SV ranch.
HOPALONG CASSIDY AND THE EAGLE'S BROOD (1931). (Danish: Hopalong Cassidy gør regnskabet op). A small town is cleaned up by Hopalong, Johnny Nelson, Tex Ewalt, Matt Skinner (from Rustlers' Valley), Dave Saunders (from Cottonwood Gulch), Wyatt Duncan (from Black Buttes) og Corson from the Corson series.
MESQUITE JENKINS, TUMBLEWEED (1932) Mesquite has a horse named Thunder. He has left the Lazy S on his way to see Johnny Nelson. He ends up as foreman on The Three J for John Jordan and his sister Sara, with whom he falls in love.
HOPALONG CASSIDY TAKES CARDS (1937). (Danish: Hopalong Cassidy spiller med) Hopalong is sheriff in Twin River and half owner of the Double Y with Buck Peters. Mesquite on his way back. He had escaped matrimony by the skin of his teeth. Red, Skinny and Lanky are all married. There are two new men on the Double Y, the brothers George and Bill Shaw. I ain’t hardly ever thought of Whit (J.Whitby Booth) the last dozen years." (Hopalong) "Hank" Booth and Margaret has a son George, and Margaret’s father, George MacAllister, is still living. Shanghai comes back from jail and Hoppy gets him a job on the Double Y. Mesquite is sent up to investigate cattle rustling, and Hopalong joins him in the end. Shanghai tries to help out by double crossing his old friends and is shot.
HOPALONG CASSIDY SERVES A WRIT (1941) Hopalong is sheriff in Twin River with two new deputies, George and Mike. Mesquite is expected back from a visit with Tex and Jane and arrives simultaneously with Johnny Nelson and Margaret. Hoppy, Mesquite and Johnny catches rustlers and train robbers.
... and by Louis L'Amour (as Tex Burns): HOPALONG CASSIDY AND THE RUSTLERS OF WEST FORK (1951). HOPALONG CASSIDY AND THE TRAIL TO SEVEN PINES (1951). (Danish: Hopalong Cassidy slaar igen) HOPALONG CASSIDY AND THE RIDERS OF HIGH ROCK (1951). (Danish: Hopalong Cassidy jager kvægtyvene) HOPALONG CASSIDY, TROUBLE SHOOTER (1951). (Danish: Hopalong Cassidy holder sit løfte)
Danish editions: From Jespersen & Pio. Translated by F.J. Peltz. Covers by Axel Matthiesen.
From Martins Forlag. Translated and abridged by ???
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