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J. Frank Dobie
[1888-1964]
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P R O F I L E
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h e r e
J. Frank Dobie entry at Wikipedia
official website/blog
search books on 'J.+Frank+Dobie' {returns almost 300 items} at Amazon
Books About The West
search books on 'J.+Frank+Dobie' {returns almost 300 items} at Amazon
"Weather Wisdom of The Texas-Mexican Border" [1923] Ebook
"A Vaquero of The Brush Country" [The Southwest Press 1929] by John Young and J. Frank Dobie
"Coronado's Children" [The Southwest Press 1930]
"On The Open Range" [The Southwest Press 1931]
"Tongues of The Monte" [Doubleday 1935]
"The Flavor of Texas" [Dealey and Lowe 1936]
"Tales of The Mustang" [Rein Co. for The Book Club of Texas 1936]
"Apache Gold & Yaqui Silver" [Little, Brown 1939]
"John C. Duval: First Texas Man of Letters" [Southwest Review 1939]
"The Roadrunner In Fact and Folk-lore" [1939]
"The Longhorns" [Little, Brown 1941]
"Guide To Life and Literature of The Southwest" [U.T. Press 1943]
"A Texan In England" [Little, Brown 1945]
"The Voice of The Coyote" [Little, Brown 1949] pb edition, Univ Nebraska Press, 1961
"The Ben Lilly Legend" [Little, Brown 1950]
"The Mustangs" [Little, Brown 1952]
"Tales of Old Time Texas" [Little, Brown 1955]
"Up The Trail From Texas" [Random House 1955]
"I'll Tell You A Tale" [Little, Brown 1960]
"Cow People" [Little, Brown 1964]
"Rattlesnakes" [Little, Brown 1965]
"Out of The Old Rock" [Little, Brown 1972]
"Prefaces" [Little, Brown 1975]
"Wild and Wily Range Animals" [Northland Press 1980]
Other Works
Many of J. Frank Dobie's shorter works first appeared in pamphlets of historical societies, in regional magazines, etc.; whether or not each entry below
was later collected in book form is a job for a scholar - on this online bookstore page, such items will be posted/coded upon discovery.
"The Seven Mustangs" address delivered at the unveiling of the monument on 31 May 1948
at University of Texas, Austin [The Adams Publns 1948]
 | "The Essential J. Frank Dobie (Wittliff Collections)" [2019] Edited by Steven L. Davis Kindle Edition from Texas A&M Univ Press [10/2019] for $15.12 Texas A&M Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [10/2019] for $28.00 |
Movies & TV, Other Media
J. Frank Dobie credits at Internet Movie Database
"The Alamo" [Batjac/United Artists Oct 1960]
 |  | Sam Houston asked Col. Travis to stall Mexico's Gen. Santa Anna's 6,000-man army at the Alamo mission outside San Antonio. The 200 Texicans were joined by Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and others willing to fight to the death to save the new Republic of Texas • Directed by & starring John Wayne; uncredited technical advisor J.Frank Dobie; co-starring Richard Widmark, Richard Boone, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Chill Wills & Denver Pyle; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Wills), Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Music (Dimitri Tiomkin), won for Best Sound; won Western Heritage Bronze Wrangler Award in 1961
MGM/UA UNCUT {202 min.} color VHS [12/2001] for $9.94 MGM/UA widescreen [162 min.} DVD [12/2000] for $17.98 Sony soundtrack CD [3/95] for $11.98 full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia 11"x17" poster (at left) from Amazon for $9.99 14"x11" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
"Spirit of The Alamo" TV documentary [1960] Self - Special Guest /tt0054334/
Works About J. Frank Dobie
"Some Part of Myself" [Little, Brown 1967]
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"Nightswim" [2004] a 90-minute one-act play by Steve Moore
about Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb; first produced in Austin, Texas
Family & Friends
[ more to be added ]
longtime pals
Roy Bedichek [1878-1959]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Bedichek
[blacklistee] John Henry Faulk [1913-1990]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Faulk
Walter Prescott Webb [1888-1963]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Prescott_Webb
L i n k s
J. Frank Dobie entry at Wikipedia
official website/blog
search books on 'J.+Frank+Dobie' {returns almost 300 items} at Amazon
here on the J. Frank Dobie [1888-1964] Page at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
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