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Hackberry Jones, Split End
Jim Carter was cocaptain and regular quarterback of the Riverside football varsity. The fall of his senior year was going to be a big season for him, and he meant to make the most of it.
Prospects looked bright until Jim's girl asked him to introduce a new boy to the coaches. When Hackberry Jones walked in to try out for the team, Jim confidently expected everyone to laugh, for this tall, bony, red-haired boy knew nothing about football; his skills were roping calves and riding wild horses.
Prospects looked bright until Jim's girl asked him to introduce a new boy to the coaches. When Hackberry Jones walked in to try out for the team, Jim confidently expected everyone to laugh, for this tall, bony, red-haired boy knew nothing about football; his skills were roping calves and riding wild horses.
174 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1968
About the author
Curtis Kent Bishop
56 booksCurtis Kent Bishop was born in Bolivar, Tennessee in 1912 and moved to Texas with his family while still a child.
He attended Big Spring High School while working part time at the Austin American-Statesman, and after graduating in 1934 he went to the University of Texas where worked on the student magazine the Ranger as the editor and the student newspaper, the Daily Texan as a sports reporter.
After earning his bachelors degree, he went to work as a reporter for the Austin Tribune and made his job at the Austin American-Statesman a permanent position where he wrote a column called "This Day in Texas" which was syndicated throughout the state.
During World War II Bishop served with the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service in Latin America and in the Pacific Theater.
When he came back to Texas he continued his writing career and became known for his books rather than his newspaper reporting.
He wrote about sports and life in the American West. Several of his westerns were even made into motion pictures.
Sometimes using the pseudonyms "Curt Brandon" and "Curt Carroll", Bishop wrote more than fifty books and several hundred magazine articles for youth concerning sports and western lore, as well as several hundred magazine articles for youth readers, like Half-Time Hero (1956), and Dribble Up (1956), The First Texas Ranger: Jack Hays (1959), and Lots of Land (1949) which was written with James Bascom Giles.
Bishop was married to Grace Eyree, and they had four children. He died of a heart attack on March 17, 1967, in Austin and was buried in Austin Memorial Park.
He attended Big Spring High School while working part time at the Austin American-Statesman, and after graduating in 1934 he went to the University of Texas where worked on the student magazine the Ranger as the editor and the student newspaper, the Daily Texan as a sports reporter.
After earning his bachelors degree, he went to work as a reporter for the Austin Tribune and made his job at the Austin American-Statesman a permanent position where he wrote a column called "This Day in Texas" which was syndicated throughout the state.
During World War II Bishop served with the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service in Latin America and in the Pacific Theater.
When he came back to Texas he continued his writing career and became known for his books rather than his newspaper reporting.
He wrote about sports and life in the American West. Several of his westerns were even made into motion pictures.
Sometimes using the pseudonyms "Curt Brandon" and "Curt Carroll", Bishop wrote more than fifty books and several hundred magazine articles for youth concerning sports and western lore, as well as several hundred magazine articles for youth readers, like Half-Time Hero (1956), and Dribble Up (1956), The First Texas Ranger: Jack Hays (1959), and Lots of Land (1949) which was written with James Bascom Giles.
Bishop was married to Grace Eyree, and they had four children. He died of a heart attack on March 17, 1967, in Austin and was buried in Austin Memorial Park.
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February 17, 2025
I had a little difficulty getting into this at first, but once I bought into the premise of a sort of goofy football player and realizing the author wasn't playing it for laughs, I enjoyed it, especially the exciting finish. This book was published the year after Curtis Bishop passed away.
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