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Mr. Smith is right. Spencer's Mountain was the basis for the T.V. series
The Waltons
Donna Gaston
Pea Ridge Arkansas Media Spec.
On Wed, 5 Oct 1994, William Russell Smith wrote:
> > I have a teacher who wants to get the books that were the basis for
> > the television show _The Waltons_. the only thing we have to begin
> > any search is the name Hamner. We think this was the name of the
> > original author, but we are not sure. I've checked all my sources
>
> I'm not a trivia nut, just an Internet hound doggie! I found Earl
> Hamner in an electronic Internet database as the author of two books,
> _Spencer's Mountain in 1961 and _The Homecoming_ (a novel about Spencer's
> Mountain) in 1970. The original book was Dial Press, New York and the
> sequel was Random House, New York.
>
> I saw the Henry Fonda movie, but I wasn't much of a John Boy fan so I
> don't know if this was the original idea for The Waltons. Sounds similar
> though.
>
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