author
Clarence Edward Mulford
1883–1956
Best known for creating Hopalong Cassidy, this American writer helped shape the Western hero for generations of readers, listeners, and viewers. His stories mixed action with unusually careful attention to detail, building a frontier world that lasted far beyond the page.
11 Audiobooks
Bar-20 Days
by Clarence Edward Mulford
Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up; Or, Bar-20
by Clarence Edward Mulford
Hopalong Cassidy
by Clarence Edward Mulford
"Bring Me His Ears"
by Clarence Edward Mulford
Buck Peters, ranchman : being the story of what happened when Buck Peters, Hopalong Cassidy, and their Bar-20 associates went to Montana
by Clarence Edward Mulford, John Wood Clay
The Bar-20 Three
by Clarence Edward Mulford
"Tex"
by Clarence Edward Mulford
The Orphan
by Clarence Edward Mulford
The Man from Bar 20: A Story of the Cow Country
by Clarence Edward Mulford
Johnny Nelson How a one-time pupil of Hopalong Cassidy of the famous Bar-20 ranch in the Pecos Valley performed an act of knight-errantry and what came of it
by Clarence Edward Mulford
The Coming of Cassidy—And the Others
by Clarence Edward Mulford
About the author
Born in Streator, Illinois, in 1883, Clarence Edward Mulford became one of the most influential popular Western writers of the early 20th century. He is best remembered as the creator of Hopalong Cassidy, a character he introduced in 1904 and developed across short stories and 28 novels.
Mulford’s work reached a huge audience because Hopalong Cassidy did not stay only in books. The stories were adapted into radio programs, feature films, television, and comic books, though those versions often changed the character in important ways. Even so, Mulford’s original fiction laid the foundation for one of the best-known cowboy figures in American entertainment.
He later lived in Fryeburg, Maine, and remained closely associated with the Hopalong Cassidy series throughout his career. Mulford died in Portland, Maine, in 1956. No suitable verified portrait image was confirmed from the sources reviewed here, so a profile image is not included.