Anthologies
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories | 1921 | Buy |
Hopalong Cassidy Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Bar-20 | 1906 | Buy |
| The Orphan | 1908 | Buy |
| Hopalong Cassidy | 1910 | Buy |
| Bar-20 Days / Hopalong Cassidy’s Private War | 1911 | Buy |
| Buck Peters, Ranchman | 1912 | Buy |
| The Coming of Cassidy | 1913 | Buy |
| The Man from Bar 20 | 1918 | Buy |
| Johnny Nelson | 1920 | Buy |
| Bar-20 Three / Hopalong Cassidy Sees Red | 1921 | Buy |
| Tex | 1922 | Buy |
| Bring Me His Ears | 1922 | Buy |
| H. C. Returns | 1923 | Buy |
| Black Buttes | 1923 | Buy |
| Rustler’s Valley | 1924 | Buy |
| Cottonwood Gulch | 1925 | Buy |
| Hopalong Cassidy’s Saddle Mate | 1926 | Buy |
| The Bar-20 Rides Again | 1926 | Buy |
| Corson of the J.C. | 1928 | Buy |
| Mesquite Jenkins | 1928 | Buy |
| Me An’ Shorty | 1929 | Buy |
| The Deputy Sheriff | 1930 | Buy |
| Hopalong Cassidy and the Eagles Brood | 1931 | Buy |
| Mesquite Jenkins, Tumbleweed | 1932 | Buy |
| Round-Up | 1933 | Buy |
| Trail Dust | 1934 | Buy |
| On The Trail Of The Tumbling T | 1935 | Buy |
| Hopalong Cassidy Takes Cards | 1937 | Buy |
| Hopalong Cassidy Serves a Writ | 1941 | Buy |
Clarence Mulford (1883-1956) was an American author who created one of the most recognizable characters in Western fiction: Hopalong Cassidy. Despite never living in the American West himself, Mulford wrote twenty-eight novels about the Bar-20 ranch and its cowboys, starting with Bar-20 in 1906 and continuing through Hopalong Cassidy Serves a Writ in 1941.
Mulford’s Hopalong Cassidy was a tougher, more realistic character than the polished cowboy hero who later appeared in films and television. The original Cassidy had a limp from an old gunshot wound, drank whiskey, and used rough language. Mulford researched Western life extensively through books and correspondence, and his novels were popular in their time. The Hopalong Cassidy series eventually inspired a massive media franchise, though the screen version departed significantly from Mulford’s creation.