Albert Payson Terhune
Birth date: December 21, 1872
Died: February 18, 1942
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My love for Terhune’s dog stories is filtered through a haze of happy nostalgia, but this particular one won’t go into my basket of favorites. Chum, the collie main character, is as perfect as any in these books, but his owner and his owner’s love interest are hardly sympathetic. Even Chum gets a li...
When I was a kid, my parents sent me to visit with my grandparents for a week every summer, presumably so we could get to know each other better as we lived a few hundred miles apart. It didn’t really work, as my grandparents were busy people with their own personal lives and I mostly only saw them ...
God, this is awful. I love dogs. I love dog books. Silver Chief, Dog of the North and Big Red were among my favorite books growing up. I didn't even much mind reading James Oliver Curwood's Swift Lightening a year or so ago, although it was a pretty silly book. But this piece of crap is beyond the p...
Primarily the story of a great Gary Stu of a dog who is sent overseas to serve as a courier dog for the US forces during WWI. Bruce’s family had no sons to contribute to the war effort, so they sent their smart, loyal, brave, etc. pet collie to serve instead. His exploits in France seem to be a fict...
Albert Payson Terhune (1872–1942) had several careers, eventually settling into journalism and writing. He and his wife also bred collies at their Sunnybank Kennels in New Jersey, and Terhune based most of his writing in the 1920s and 30s on dogs. His first published works were short stories in mag...
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