Books by Elmer Kelton and Complete Book Reviews
Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $24.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2050-6
In 1855, young Jeffrey and Todd Barfield are orphaned in West Texas when their parents are killed by Comanches: Todd is carried off as a Comanche captive; Jeffrey is rescued by a Texas posse. For the next seven years each boy survives by his wits,...
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Elmer Kelton, Author Forge $21.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-312-86471-2
After more than 40 novels full of ""five foot eight and nervous"" western heroes, Kelton brings back endearing Hewey Calloway, the restless, middle-aged cowboy of The Good Old Boys. But now it's 1910 in West Texas, and the freewheeling cowboy life...
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Elmer Kelton, Author Forge $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-86076-9
Six-time Golden Spur winner Kelton (The Far Canyon, etc.) produces westerns that are far from routine oaters, and this new novel set in post-Civil War Texas is high-quality fare. Pumpkin rollers such as Kelton's new hero, Trey McLean, are farmboys-tu
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Elmer Kelton, Author Forge $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-86239-8
Kelton's 35th novel (after The Pumpkin Rollers) is a clever western about a 12-year-old boy on the run from the law in 1885 Texas. Young Joey Shipman has more troubles than Custer. His Pa dies suddenly, leaving him at the mercy of his bitter,...
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Elmer Kelton, Author Forge $24.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1522-9
Prolific Spur Award\x96winner Kelton knocks out the seventh western in his Texas Ranger series, following 2005\x92s Jericho\x92s Road. In the 1870s, former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, now a restless farmer, drops his plow and straps on his guns when...
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Elmer Kelton, Author Forge $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-87319-6
The indefatigable Kelton cranks out yet another rousing western, his ninth novel under the Forge Books brand, with this continuation of the saga of the Texas Rangers and his redheaded hero, Rusty Shannon. In 1865, the Civil War is just about over...
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Elmer Kelton, Author Forge $22.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-312-86522-1
Six-time Spur Award-winner Kelton, author of more than 40 westerns (The Smiling Country, etc.), once again presents a solid story of murder, revenge and Indian fighting, in which almost everyone but the unlikely hero is quick on the draw. Rusty...
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Elmer Kelton, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-385-24893-8
Most of the elements in this aw-shucks novel about a Texas oil town in the '20s are straight from central casting. Inhabiting Caprock, a place where people say, ``If you aint's et, I'd be tickled to have your company,'' are, conveniently, the good...
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Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $24.99 (268p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2051-3
Longtime fans of the late Kelton, who died this summer, will welcome the return of Texas Ranger Andy Pickard to the saddle. In 1880s Texas, newlywed Ranger Pickard is on the trail of Donley Bannister, wanted for the murder of low-down Cletus Slocum.
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Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $24.95 (363p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2064-3
The latest from prolific Texan novelist Kelton (Hard Trail to Follow
) is really two novels, both concerning the Texas revolution against Mexico as witnessed by two young brothers, Joshua and Thomas Buckalew. In the first book, “Massacre at...
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Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-87318-9
As gratifying as a McMurtry side plot and with more gritty excitement than just about any Hollywood cowboy flick, this outing highlights the post–Civil War limbo suffered by the Texas Rangers. Andy Pickard, a 10-year-old half-wild captive of...
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Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $24.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1526-7
Seven-time Spur Award winner Kelton has always been a masterful western storyteller of tales rich with historical detail, vivid characters and sharply defined plots. Here he concludes the Sons of Texas trilogy with the strongest entry, set in the...
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Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $24.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1525-0
The second volume of this prolific western writer's Sons of Texas trilogy (after Sons of Texas
) is a colorful, if action-deficient, lesson in Texas history 1825–1826. Along with brothers Michael and Andrew Lewis, most of the characters...
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Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $24.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1019-4
Kelton has been writing westerns for nearly 50 years; the keystones of his suspenseful, carefully drawn style can be found in these two early, previously published full-length novels. In Llano River
(1966), cattle tycoon John Titus hires Dundee, a...
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Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $23.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0956-3
Hewey Calloway is a fun-loving cowboy who can't shoot straight; his younger brother, Walter, is a serious cowboy who, much to Hewey's horror, wants to marry a pretty girl and become a farmer. Both are looking for a job and a meal in 1889...
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Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1021-7
A veteran writer of more than 40 western novels, seven-time Spur Award–winner Kelton again delivers careful plotting, colorful characters and vibrant action in this tale set largely in Mexican-ruled Texas. In 1816, the patriarch of the Lewis...
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Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0955-6
Seven-time Spur Award–winner and the author of more than 40 books, Kelton serves up another action-packed western with this sixth volume in his Texas Ranger series. The Texas-Mexico border in the 1870s was a bad place for gringos and Mexicans...
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Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0572-5
In a cloud of gun smoke and hot lead, the Texas Rangers once again blast their way across 1870s Texas in this fifth volume of Kelton's series about frontier lawmen eager to dish out six-gun justice. Following last year's Ranger's Trail
,
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Elmer Kelton, Author . Forge $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0571-8
Seven-time Spur Award–winner Kelton (Way of the Coyote) returns with the fourth installment of his Texas Ranger series, once again offering a wild ride of six-gun justice as former Ranger Rusty Shannon comes to know what it really means to be...
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Howard Terpning, Author, Elmer Kelton, Author Bantam $60 (160p) ISBN 978-0-553-08113-8
Terpning's most effective paintings of the Plains Indians have an unaffected simplicity and quiet strength. Too often, however, the Arizona-based artist purveys a romanticized view of Native Americans striking noble poses. His gift for storytelling...
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