“elmer kelton”

To Kelton, the brush country of southwest Texas is home. Nobody knows Texas's history, people, beauty, and dangers as well as this greatest of Western writers, who now offers two novels in this omnibus: "Barbed Wire" and "Llano."To Elmer Kelton, the brush country of southwest Texas is home. Nobody k... More

Kelton writes of his beloved Texas in these two novels of cowmen and cow country. In "Pecos Crossing," two young cowboys intend to get what is due to them. In "Shotgun," Macy Modock has returned and is determined to get even with the man who sent him up the river.Elmer Kelton writes of his beloved h... More

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 of the Coyote."In" Lone Star Rising," Elmer Kelton ("A Texas Legend," according to Texas Governor Rick Perry), b... More

"Ranger's Law" brings together the fourth, fifth, and sixth of Elmer Kelton's novels on the formative years of the Texas Rangers. Kelton's young heroes, Rusty Shannon, and one-time Comanche captive, Andy Pickard, fight Indians, outlaws, feuding ranchers, smugglers, and all manner of lawbreakers whil... More

"One thing is certain," a reviewer in "True West Magazine" recently said, "as long as there are writers as skillful as Elmer Kelton, Western literature will never die."Few would disagree with the assessment of the man whose peers voted the "Best Western writer of all time" and whose 50 novels form a... More

In the seventh novel in Keltons acclaimed Texas Ranger series, former Ranger Andy Pickard leaves his fiances farm in north central Texas to track the man who he believes killed his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing.Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, called "Badger Boy" when he lived with Comanches as a ch... More

Set in the early 1800s, "Sons of Texas" is the first volume in a trilogy that follows the lives and adventures of the Lewis family through the era of the Alamo and Texas Independence under Sam Houston.In 1816, Mordecai Lewis, a veteran of Andrew Jackson's Indian campaigns and battles against the Bri... More

Against the heroic, bloody backdrop of the Texas War of Independence, this novel--the final entry in Kelton's Rebels saga--follows the Lewis brothers and their families as they join such rebels as Jim Bowie and David Crockett in wresting Texas from Mexican rule.It is the mid 1830s and a growing flow... More

Two brothers become caught up in the turbulence of the Civil War, which, even in remote West Texas, pits Confederate sympathizers against Unionists. The brothers, who have been separated by violence, are destined to be rejoined by violence. Will they meet as friends or deadly enemies?... More