Old Yeller was the novel that Gipson considered his best work. Old Yeller has a sequel called Savage Sam, which also became a Walt Disney film in 1962. The novel achieved enduring popularity thanks to the 1957 Walt Disney Studios film. In 1956, his most famous novel, Old Yeller, was published, winning the Newbery Honor. 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 in 1949 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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