Books
Du Bois wrote The Lone Ranger (the first novel adapting the popular radio character), 35 Big Little Books, five Little Blue Books, at least eight boys adventure novels and several other ghost written novels and biographies. The Little Blue Books penned by Du Bois in the late 1920s include #997 Simple Recipes for Home Cooking, #1105 Pocket Dictionary Spanish-English English Spanish, #1109 Spanish Self Taught, #1207 French Self Taught, #1222 Easy Readings in Spanish, and an article in #1270. Little Blue Books Indexed by Author, Corvallis Oregon, 2006.
Big Little Books included Tailspin Tommy (under the name Hal Forrest, the cartoonist who originally co-created the character), Tom Mix, Gene Autry, The Lone Ranger, Pilot Pete, Buck Jones, Clyde Beatty and many others under his own name and using pen name Buck Wilson.
Adventure novels included the Don Winslow of the Navy series ghostwritten for Frank V Martinek, based on Martinek's comic strip, Barry Blake, The Lone Rider, and The Lone Ranger. A series of books co-written with Oskar Lebeck includes Hurricane Kids on the Lost Island; Rex, King of the Deep; and Stratosphere Jim.
Gaylord Du Bois wrote several adaptations of well known titles such as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Little Women, Kidnapped for his editor at Western Publishing; and The Pony Express, a series of historical word sketches, with color illustrations.
Two Golden Press adaptations appeared in 1960: Kidnapped. Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Golden Press. 1960. 58 pages. A Golden Reading Adventure. #378. Nomads of the North. Based on the book by James Oliver Curwood. Story adapted from the 1961 Walt Disney film, Nikki, Wild Dog of the North. Golden Press. 1960. 60 pages. # 379:100.
A devout Christian, Du Bois co-authored Biblical Cartoons from Daily Life! with Phil Saint in 1981.
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