Elmer Kelton
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
The Civil War has ended, and Union soldiers and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child, he was a captive of the Comanche, as a young man a proud member of a ranging company protecting settlers from Indian raids. Shannon's fate is intertwined with the young man accompanying him: Andy Pickard, himself but recently rescued from Comanche captivity and known by his captors as Badger...
Author
Publisher
FORGE
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farm boys, almost more trouble than they were worth.
When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as green as they come. But, Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry.
And, when luck finally sets...
Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 5
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
1st mass market ed.
Language
English
Description
In post-Civil War Texas, Andy Pickard, once known to his Comanche "family" as Badger Boy, is now in his mid-twenties and riding with the Texas Rangers. While delivering a prisoner for trial, he becomes entangled in a feud between the Landon and Hopper families. Andy works to help Jayce Landon, while at the same time keeping the boy Scooter Tennyson from being pulled into a life of crime. Lives are at stake, loyalties tested, and the worst aspects...
Author
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
1st Forge ed.
Language
English
Description
Deputy Sheriff Jim-Bob McClain isn't sure he's ready to follow in his father's footsteps as the law in Coolridge County. In fact, he has a hard enough time keeping the peace between the drunks in the local saloon. But, with tough Sheriff Mont Naylor to back him up he figures he can handle whatever comes his way.
Jim-Bob's first real assignment is no piece of cake. He must escort a ruthless outlaw into the hands of justice. All seems well with the...
6) Joe Pepper
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Joe Pepper is a Texas badman with quite a past. In fact, there isn't much that Joe hasn't done in his forty years of living on both sides of the Texas law-except face the hangman. Now, convicted of murder, Joe is about to get that privilege. But before he goes, Joe has a few things he wants to say-and a few stories that he wants to set straight. With Joe Pepper, legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton tells a fine and moving tale of the history of his...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...
8) Bitter Trail
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico. Sounds like a peaceable enterprise. The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold, gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.
And, added to his balky mules, the broiling heat, and killing drought of the Mexican dessert, Wheeler has even more...
9) Texas rifles
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
1st TOR ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Six-time winner of the Golden Spur Award, Elmer Kelton crafts stories that carry listeners into some of the most vivid years of the American West. Texas Rifles is an action-filled tale of courage in the face of divided loyalties. In 1861, men are enlisting in the Texas Mounted Rifles to keep the land free from Indian raids. There are larger conflicts, however. Texas has seceded from the union while war brews between the North and the South. Sam Houston...
Author
Publisher
Goldminds Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Matthew Wayland and his young wife Rachal have settled on a small farm in Kerr County, Texas. While breaking the ground for his new wheat field, Matthew senses a Comanche attack and makes a fast track for home to protect his wife and defend their land.
11) Wild west
Author
Publisher
[Forge]
Pub. Date
[2017].
Edition
[First edition?]
Language
English
Description
"Collected for the first time in book form, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton's Wild West"--
Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This is a story of the early days when...
An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding...
15) Lost trails
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
They are the stuff of legend, thundering out of the harsh landscapes and stunning vistas of the American West, vividly lodged in our collective imaginations. From Buffalo Bill to Billy the Kid, from Cochise to Jesse James, these names and so many others screamed across newspaper and dime store magazine headlines while the Wild West was won.
Lost Trails features inventive, hard-riding, action-packed stories by America's best Western writers. Louis...
Lost Trails features inventive, hard-riding, action-packed stories by America's best Western writers. Louis...