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Steve Kelton
Elmer Kelton's Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his middling years, as he looks for work--but not too much…
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When Elmer Kelton died in the fall of 2009, the literary world lost a consummate writer, a man the New York Times called a novelist who brought the sensibility of…
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Hewey is back; older, wiser, and badly banged up trying to break a renegade bronc. His wandering days are over because of his injuries, because of fences that cut up…
Aging cowboy and bronco-buster Wes Hendricks just wants to be left alone on his poor ranch, even when town developers offer him big money to sell it. Wes’s grandson reluctantly…
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978.
Comanche warrior Crow Feather’s situation is emblematic of a common recurring theme in all of Kelton’s works… change. Protagonist Jeff Layne is faced with the very same dramatic problem, the…
Someone has said that fiction by definition is a lie. By extension this means that fiction writers are liars. In that context, I will admit to it, and go a…
The life of a Texas cowboy is tough–especially if he is a black man like Isaac Jefford. Though he is the best at what he does, Isaac is careful not…
Kelton continues the story of the Lewis family and the formative years of the Lone Star state in this second installment of the saga of early Texas.
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Returning home to Texas near the close of the Civil War, Confederate soldier Owen Danforth finds his state torn by its own near civil war as the supporters of Sam…
First published in 1995 as a collection of four selected speeches by Elmer Kelton, this revised second edition includes three of those pieces plus two new ones.
A memoir that presents the story of ‘a freckle-faced country boy, green as a gourd, a sheep ready to be sheared’, growing up in the wild, dry, sandhills of West…
Originally published in 1989 by the Berkley Publishing Group as Sons of Texas by Tom Early, a pseudonym of Elmer Kelton –T.p. verso.
Gideon Ledbetter, freed from slavery, finds himself with no land, no money, and no means to make a living. He is drawn into the army, which had painted a deceptively…
Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything inbetween, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous…
A Texas badman, there is not much Joe Pepper hasn’t done in his 40 years of living on both sides of the law–except face the hangman. Joe is soon convicted…
No one writes the old west like Seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton. In The Cowboy Way, Kelton captures the action, adventure, brotherhood and betrayal of the old west, chronicling…
Collected for the first time in one volume –Jacket.
Collected for the first time in book form –Jacket.
Presents the story of one-time cowboy Doug Monahan who runs a fencing crew outside the town of Twin Wells. Monahan, a likeable, hard-working Irishman, and his workers dig post -…
In Joe Pepper, the titular character, while awaiting a hangman’s noose, tells the story of how he discovered a propensity for violence while seeking revenge. The irony is that Joe’s…
In Massacre At Goliad , tensions mount between Mexican authorities and American newcomers. Revolution is in the air, something Thomas Buckalew welcomes but his brother Joshua fears, since Joshua is…
Contains three stories: Rangers Trail ; Texas Vendetta ; and, Jericho’s Road .
When his adoptive father is bushwhacked and killed in Texas in 1861, Rusty Shannon rides to fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Mike Shannon’s death…
From one of the most critically acclaimed writers of the American West–two classic tales of western history packaged together in a tall Premium Edition. Original.inal.
Two complete novels from the legendary Western author Elmer Kelton in one low-priced edition: Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West
Buffalo WagonsFor Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873…
The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country pairs two wonderful novels by one of the most honored of all western writers, Elmer Kelton
The Good Old Boys Hewey Calloway…
Western fiction legend Elmer Kelton brings together the first three books of his acclaimed Texas Ranger saga in this omnibus volume. Includes The Buckskin Line, Badger Boy, and The Way…
In the ninth and final novel in the Texas Ranger series, Ranger Andy Pickard and his partner, Logan Daggett, are sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings…
Espy Norwood is a trouble shooter who’s got troubles of his own - and more troubles find him when he lands a job on a ranch on the Texas plains…
Young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned to the Texas-Mexico border and finds himself in the middle of a violent range war in this sixth book of Kelton’s acclaimed Texas…
Caprock, Texas, is a sleepy cow town until oil is discovered in the 1920s. Suddenly thousands of people stream in to find their fortune; some are honest folk, but too…
The master of the Western presents Pecos Crossing and Shotgun
As he flees to the sanctuary of Mexico, Chacho Fernandez is unaware of the fuel he has added to the already simmering racial hatreds in and around the quiet town…
"An Elmer Kelton Western by Steve Kelton."
On trial for murder, Frank Claymore, an old Texas rancher, recalls his experiences as a young man and the events that led to his trial.
