Word: mulford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Clarence Mulford's original pulp-paper stories, Hoppy had been a ragged, tobacco-chewing, whiskery cowpoke who walked with a bad limp. But Boyd made him a veritable Galahad of the range-a soft-spoken paragon who did not smoke, drink, or kiss girls, who tried to capture the rustlers instead of shooting them, and who always let the villain draw first if gunplay was inevitable...
Selling the ranch, Boyd put everything he owned into buying up all possible rights to Hopalong Cassidy. After repeated round trips to Fryeburg, Me., he drew up a contract with Author Clarence Mulford, whose original pulp-fiction Hoppy-unlike the softspoken, clean-living movie version-was a cussing, ungrammatical, hard-drinking ranch hand with a game...