Character actor Jeff York (center), who had costarred as Mike Fink with Fess Parker in the Davy Crockett series, and 13-year-old veteran TV actress Beverly Washburn were cast as the friendly father and daughter neighbors of the Coates family, including Kevin Corcoran as younger brother Arliss. Walt Disney bought the book, and rejected all entreaties to soften its ending: this was the story readers had made a best-seller, and this was the story he would tell. Inspired by the tales Gipson’s Texas pioneer grandparents told him, Old Yeller is about an adolescent boy, Travis his kid brother, Arliss and their mother who, with father away on a cattle drive, are helped by a huge, lop-eared yellow dog who wanders onto their homestead to steal food, and becomes their protector. That’s how much I’d come to think of the big yeller dog.” Still read in schools across the country, frequently in conjunction with watching the film, it’s often cited as the book that first revealed to readers that the written word could make them cry. Then later, when I had to kill him, it was like having to shoot some of my own folks.
In 1956, Fred Gipson stunned readers when his new novel began, “He made me so mad at first that I wanted to kill him. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980.Disney Mouseketeer Kevin Corcoran was cast opposite fellow Mouseketeer Tommy Kirk as Kirk’s younger brother, Arliss, and both of them had many memorable moments on and off screen with Yeller, aka Spike. Recollection Creek, revised for young people.The "Cow Killers": with the Aftosa Commission in Mexico.Cowhand: the story of a working cowboy.
Fabulous Empire: Colonel Zack Miller's Story.Old Yeller was based on a Deishler family dog named "Rattler" and unlike Old Yeller, Rattler was a dark colored Border Collie. Old Yeller, a stray dog adopted by the boy, helps in the formidable task of protecting the family on the Texas Ranch. Set in the Texas Hill Country in the 1860s just after the American Civil War, the story is about the 14-year-old boy Travis Coates (played by Tommy Kirk in the film) left in charge of the household while his father is away. 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. Fred Gipson visiting family in Sand Springs Oklahoma in 1959
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