 Buck spent his last years in his family home at 324 South Bishop Street in San Angelo, Texas, and died of lung cancer on March 25, 1950 in Houston, aged 66.In 1953, "Bring 'Em Back Alive" was adapted into a comic book in the "Classics Illustrated" series (issue 104).The following year, the Gainesville Community Circus in Buck's hometown of Gainesville, Texas was renamed the Frank Buck Zoo in his honor.