Frank Dobie and was elected president of the journalism society. In 1936, he won a writing contest judged by author J. His story "Hard-Pressed Sam" was published by the Southwest Review, and his columns began to appear in the university's Daily Texan. That fall, Gipson's younger brother urged Fred to come with him to the University of Texas. In 1931, the Great Depression forced Gipson and his father to seek work as day laborers. At twenty, he had his own team on a county road-building gang. Daunted, Gipson turned to breaking and driving mules. Yearning to be a cowboy, he signed on in late 1927 for a nightmarish ten-day goat drive through almost continuous rain. After completing a bookkeeping course in San Antonio, Gipson returned to Mason to work for a local grocer.
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