Henry Wilson Allen

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Henry Wilson Allen
Born(1912-09-12)September 12, 1912
Van Nuys, California, U.S.
OccupationWriter, screenwriter
GenreWestern fiction
Animation

Henry Wilson "Heck" Allen (September 12, 1912 – October 26, 1991) was an American author and

animated shorts
were credited to Heck Allen and Henry Allen.

Biography

Henry Wilson Allen was born in

MGM.[1][2][3] Before he began his writing career he worked variously as a stablehand, shop clerk, and gold miner.[4]

In 1937 he began working as a contract

The Three Little Pups, and The First Bad Man
.

Allen's career as a novelist began in 1950, with the publication of his first Western No Survivors. Allen, afraid that the studio would disapprove of his moonlighting, used a pen-name to avoid trouble.[8] He would go on to publish over 50 novels, eight of which were adapted for the screen. Most of these were published under one or the other of the pseudonyms Will Henry and Clay Fisher. Allen was a five-time winner of the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America and a recipient of the Levi Strauss Award for lifetime achievement.

Allen died of

Van Nuys, California
. He was 79.

Partial bibliography

  • No Survivors, 1950
  • "Red Blizzard", 1951
  • "Wolf-Eye, The Bad One", 1951 (For Children)
  • Santa Fe Passage, 1952 ("Santa Fe Passage", filmed in 1955)
  • "To Follow a Flag", 1953 (republished as "Pillars of the Sky"), ("Pillars of the Sky", filmed in 1956)
  • "War Bonnet", 1953
  • "Yellow Hair", 1953
  • Death of a Legend, 1954 (republished as "The Raiders")
  • "The Fourth Horseman", 1954
  • The Tall Men, 1954 (The Tall Men, filmed in 1955)
  • The Big Pasture, 1955
  • The Brass Command", 1955
  • Who Rides with Wyatt, 1955 (Young Billy Young, filmed in 1969)
  • Red Brother and White, 1955
  • The Blue Mustang, 1956
  • The North Star, 1956 (republished as "Blind Cañon") (filmed as
    Tashunga
     (also released as The North Star), 1996)
  • The Texas Rangers, 1957 (For Children)
  • Yellowstone Kelly, 1957 (Yellowstone Kelly, filmed in 1959)
  • "The Seven Men at Mimbres Spring", 1958
  • "The Crossing", 1958
  • "Orphan of the North", 1958 (For Children)
  • From Where the Sun Now Stands, 1960 (Spur Award Winner) (The Saddleman Award), 1961
  • Journey to Shiloh, 1960 (Journey to Shiloh, filmed in 1968)
  • "Nino: The Legend of Apache Kid", 1961
  • "The Return of the Tall Man", 1961
  • The Feleen Brand, 1962
  • "San Juan Hill", 1962
  • "The Pitchfork Patrol", 1962
  • "The Gates of the Mountains", 1963 (Spur Award Winner)
  • MacKenna's Gold, 1963 (Mackenna's Gold, filmed in 1969)
  • "Valley of the Bear", 1964 (For Children)
  • In the Land of the Mandans, 1965 (For Children)
  • The Last Warpath, 1966
  • Custer's Last Stand: The Story of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1966
  • "Sons of the Western frontier, 1968
  • "Genesis Five"
  • One More River to Cross, 1967
  • "Alias Butch Cassidy"
  • "Maheo's Children: The Legend of Little Dried River, 1968 (republished as "The Squaw killers")
  • "The Day Fort Larking Fell, 1968
  • Genesis Five, 1968
  • Outlaws and Legends, 1969
  • "Tayopa!", 1968
  • "See How They Run", 1970
  • Starbuck, 1972
  • Chiricahua, 1972 (Spur Award winner)
  • "Outcasts of Canyon Creek"
  • The Bear Paw Horses, 1973
  • "Apache Ransom", 1974
  • Sex and Pain, 1975
  • I, Tom Horn, 1975
  • "Black Apache" 1976
  • From Where the Twilight Zone, 1976
  • Summer of the Gun, 1978
  • "Nine Lives West", 1978
  • "Seven Card Stud", 1981
  • The Legend of Sotoju Mountain, 2002
  • Winter Shadows, 2003
  • The Hunkpapa Scout, 2004
  • The Scout, 2005
  • Medicine Road, 2006

Attributed quotes

"The wishbone will never replace the backbone."[9]

References

  1. ^ "Robert Yeats Allen". Village News. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  2. ^ Yowp (October 28, 2011). "Tralfaz: Harman-Ising Studio Staff, 1937". Tralfaz. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  3. ^ Yowp (December 19, 2017). "Tralfaz: Alias St. Nick". Tralfaz. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  4. ^ "Finding Aid for the Henry Wilson Allen Papers, 1955–1985". Online Archive of California website. Retrieved March 21, 2007.
  5. ^ "Oh, Heck!". Something Old Nothing new blog. Retrieved March 21, 2007.
  6. ^ Yowp (May 7, 2013). "Tralfaz: Run For the Hills". Tralfaz. Retrieved September 18, 2020.
  7. ^ Adamson, Joe (1985). The Walter Lantz Story. New York: Putnam Books.
  8. ^ "Today's Trivia". Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine website. March 15, 2005. Retrieved March 21, 2007.
  9. ^ Harrison, Todd, "Pick a Side or Stand Aside" Archived November 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Minyanville, November 16, 2011, 8:00 am. Retrieved November 16, 2011.

External links

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