1. Old Yeller Yes, This will be on the test!

3. Left the University of Texas in 1933 to become a reporter

4. First succesful novel was Hound Dog Man (1946)

7. Its sequel, Savage Sam, dealing with the same family a few years later, had its first showing in Mason in 1963

9. President of the Texas Institute of Letters in 1965

10. Died at his ranch near Mason on August 14, 1973,

11. By a special proclamation of the governor was buried in the State Cemetery in Austin