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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Hopalong Cassidy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | His Cassidy was a tough, tobacco-chewing redhead, who bossed the hands at the Bar-20 Ranch and got his nickname from the fact that a gunshot wound in his leg had left him with a permanent limp. |
 | | Boyd's Hopalong Cassidy was a dapper, soft-spoken cowboy,; who almost always wore fl, and was taken into the hearts of millions of kids. |
 | | There were Hopalong Cassidy costumes, tin windups, toy soldiers, binoculars, dart boards, knives, badges, shooting galleries, and of course a wide variety of guns and holsters." A comic strip began in 1949, drawn by Dan Spiegle and distributed by King Features. |
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