I am Catherine Carter Fullerton, daughter of Russell Gordon Carter. I have compiled this webpage so there will be a record of my Father's accomplishments for my children and grandchildren
1892-1957
After graduating from Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, New York, he went on to Harvard, specializing in history and government, graduating in 1916. He would want you to know that he worked his way through Harvard by tutoring, and waiting on table, while running track and hurdling. He was also an editor of the "Harvard Illustrated".
After Harvard, he worked for a brief time as a reporter for the Hartford Courant, then entered the Army just before he married in 1918. The experiences he endured in France during the war were a familiar theme in his books and short stories. Returning from overseas duty in 1919 to Cambridge, Massachusetts, he worked for the Youth's Companion. From 1926 until his death in 1957, he free-lanced, writing in his library at his home in Newton, Massachusetts. On this first page, you will read about his books. The second page is devoted to his short stories. Click for Short Story Page
In a dugout in the Argonne in France during World War I, Russell Gordon Carter managed to get a letter off to the editor of the Youth's Companion asking for a job. In June, 1919, he turned up in Boston and secured a position as reader. This was the beginning of his 6 years with the Youth's Companion Magazine, soon being promoted to the editorial staff. He stayed with the Companion until its demise in 1926, saying later, "I went down with her in '25 with all hands."The Youth's Companion Magazine began in 1827. By 1892 it had the largest circulation of any American Weekly publication. It was a family magazine with stories and articles for the entire family. The quality was extremely high with authors such as O.Henry, Mark Twain, Jack London, Thomas Huxley and Emily Dickinson being contributors. Its motto was, "Nothing But the Best".
In 1892, its owner, Daniel S. Ford, erected a five-story building on Columbus Avenue (now Berkeley Street) in Boston. It was there that my Father worked, until the Atlantic Monthly took over, after the demise of The Youth's Companion, and my Father retired to his home in Newton to try his hand at free-lance writing.
Anyone today possessing an old copy of the Companion would be apt to find an entrepenurial adventure of "Stag Hunt" of Bittersweet University, and his roomate "Clam Baker" written by my Father with much enjoyment! Some of the titles of this series were: "Hunt the Waffle Man", "Hunt the Barber", "Hunt the Florist", and "Hunt the Fisherman".
| Three Points of Honor received a $4,000 prize from Little, Brown Publishing Co. and Boys' Life Magazine for "best story based on the Boy Scout Oath". James E. West, Chief Scout Executive, Boy Scouts of America, and Editor of Boys' Life, said in the Forward to this book, that it was the unanimous choice of the editorial staff of Little, Brown and Boys' Life | ||
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| Shaggy, the Horse from Wyoming received a $500 prize from the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation for "The Encouragement of Juvenile Literature in America". It is dedicated to "My shaggy little sorrel horse, whose soft, inquiring muzzle seemed constantly at my shoulder while I wrote this story of our golden days together." | |
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Childhood Choices, American Pastimes and Everyday Fantasies was an Exhibition at the Library of Congress from November 20, 1986 - March 31, 1987 I was living in the Washington D.C. area then, and pictured below is Roger Fullerton, Russell Gordon Carter's grandson, viewing the exhibit. On display was "Yellow Jacket" and "Three Points of Honor". |
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| There were 12 Patriot Lad books in this series, written from 1923 to 1936. Pictured here is Patriot Lad of Old Boston, published 1923; Old Trenton, (1926); Old New Hampshire, (1933); Old Philadelphia, (1923), Old Salem (1925), and Long Island (1928). The others in the series were Old Cape Cod, (published in 1927 and republished by the Falmouth Bicentennial Committee in 1975); Old Saratoga (1929); Old Rhode Island (1930); Old Maine (1932); and Old Connecticut (1935), and the last, Old West Point in 1936. |
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Other books by Russell Gordon Carter:
Bob Hanson, Tenderfoot (with R. H Bowles) 1921
Bos Hanson, Scout 1921
Bos Hanson, First Class Scout 1922
Bob Hanson, Eagle Scout 1923
Red Gilbert's Flying Circus 1924 (pictured)
Red Gilbert's Floating Menagerie 1926
The Glory of Peggy Harrison (with Harford Powell, Jr) 1927
The White Plume of Navarre, 1927, which was translated into Swedish (pictured)
The Giant's House (with Harford Powell, Jr) 1928
The King's Spurs 1930
The Singing Dog 1931
His Own Star 1931
Good Luck, Lieutenant 1932
The Crimson Cutlass 1933 (pictured)
City of Adventure 1934
The Golden Galleon 1936
Brothers of the Frontier 1938 (see below)
The 101st Field Artillery 1940 (see below)
Teen-age Historical Stories 1948
Teen-age Animal Stories 1949
Mr. Whatley Enjoys Himself 1954 (see below)
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"Brothers of the Frontier" was illustrated by Armstrong Sperry who was not only a brilliant illustrator, but a well-known writer, and the winner of the 1941 Newberry Medal for his book, "Call it Courage". For more information on the illustrator of "Brothers of the Frontier", go to Armstrong Sperry |
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The writing of "The 101st Field Artillery" may appear out-of-character for my Father, however the Preface of the book explains. He writes: "My acquaintance with the 101st Field Artillery began in the summer of 1918 when, as a young infantry officer reporting for duty with the 32d Division north of Chateau-Thierry, I passed with a few yards of the batteries in action in the Foret-de-Fere. Eighteen years later came an unexpected renewal of the acquaintance when a group of former officers suggested that, as a professional writer, I might like to cooperate with them in writing the history of their Regiment.
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