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Pecos Crossing
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2008

Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, young, hard-working cowboys from Fort Concho, Texas, have worked six months--at $20 a month--on the Devil’s River. Their boss, a hawk-faced cow trader named Larramore, reneges on the money he owes the boys and sneaks out of the cow camp and heads for San Angelo. Fristo is tall and thin, his mind a hundred miles away; Quitman is short, bandy-legged, and "bedazzled by the flash of cards and the slosh of ...

Llano River

2 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2004

Great Western Storyteller
Elmer Kelton is one of the great storytellers in the western genre. If you like Louis Lamour or Giles Tippette, you will find Elmer Kelton's books just as enjoyable. His characters are complete, complex, likeable people who are dealing with what life throws at them. Llano River is not the typical story of a gunfighter. It is instead, the story of a man with "no backup in him", who takes a ...

Barbed Wire

2 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2007

BARBED WIRE IS TO THE POINT!!!
Have read several books by Elmer Kelton and have enjoyed them all. This one is no exception. It is about Doug Monahan and the stringing of barbed wire in Texas when it was not popular. He is fought by Andrew Rinehart who has been there a long time and has always done everything like he wanted. It is time for change and Monahan is determined to make it happen. There are the usual fights, and ...

The Good Old Boys

10 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 1999

Takes me back there
I hope some day they show this to the kids in school. This is the way it really was. I lived there from 1953-1958, and even after so many years away, and despite the fact that the setting is removed by 50 years, the country and the kinds of people were virtually unchanged. The eccentricities, the differences betwen (there were lots of immigrants there, even then) but most of all, the character of ...

The Time It Never Rained

10 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2008

Drought, civilization and compromise
This book is unlike any of Kelton's other works. The time setting is the 1950s and the seven-year drought we experienced during those years. The plot/theme is the end of the era of independence and freedom among cow men ... the time when they told themselves the drought forced them to sell themselves to the government to receive hay in return for their souls and their pasts. I think of this ...

Hard Trail To Follow (Texas Rangers)

4 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2008

Another fantastic book from Elmer Kelton
Once again, Elmer Kelton has written another great western story. Andy Pickard and the other great characters of Mr. Kelton's Texas Rangers series return, in addition to many colorful and interesting new personalities. This time, Andy is in pursuit of outlaw Luther Cordell, for the death of Andy's friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing. Mr. Kelton has created another great character in Luther Cordell, a ...

The Day the Cowboys Quit

3 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2008

Well-written story of conflict on the open range. . .
Kelton's novel has some of the ingredients of pulp western fiction - big ranchers against the little guys, justice at the end of a rope, an honorable hero wearing a sheriff's badge - but he brings a great deal of insight, experience, and historical background to the task of telling this story. It is enjoyable and full of well-drawn characters and unexpected turns of plot from beginning (a ...

Hot Iron

2 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2005

A great old-fashioned story
This book of Kelton's is written a lot more in the old style of western writing that older readers will understand and love. Even younger readers! It reads like a Louis L'Amour, only a lot more factual and believable. Kelton is no doubt the best of the best! Well, I can't say that. He is neck and neck with Kirby Jonas, whom critics call the New Louis L'Amour. But between the two of them you ...

Buffalo Wagons

4 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 1997

Thanks, Kindra!
I'm not normally a lover of Westerns, but I have Mr. Kelton's granddaughter in a class I teach and she talked a lot about her author grandfather, so I finally gave in and purchased a copy of one of his books. I guess I owe the granddaughter a big "Thank you," as "Buffalo Wagons" is terrific! Gage Jameson is an unusually well-rounded character for the genre. A veteran buffalo hunter, he has ...

Many a River

3 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2008

A Blend of Classic Paperback and Hardcover Keltonia
I've followed "Pop" Kelton's novels since meeting up with him at Baylor University back in the early 1980s, and this is one of his very finest. The plot resembles D. W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in that two siblings (brothers) are torn apart at an early age and we follow their separate adventures until the final pages of the novel. But what is startling here--for those like me who have a ...

The Raiders: Sons of Texas (Sons of Texas Series)

5 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2007

Kelton Shines in The Raiders
In book two of the Lewis family trilogy, THE RAIDERS: SONS OF TEXAS, veteran author Elmer Kelton delivers a finely wrought western set in the early days of Mexican-ruled Texas. To keep their land in Stephan Austin's colony, Michael and Andrew Lewis battle the elements and raiding hostiles. Michael's frequent wanderlust causes hardships for his wife, Marie, and small son. Andrew works Michael's ...

Hanging Judge

2 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2002

Impressive if downbeat Western
The eponymous Judge is a real life historical figure ,Isaac Parker ,whose vigorous pursuit and punishment of malefactors while on the Federal Bench at Fort Smith ,on the cusp of Indian Territory ,from 1875 onwards earned him that soubriquet ,and the disapprobation of the more Liberal Eastern newspapers .He had frequent recourse to the rope ,often via mass executions and his methods were highly ...

Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy (Texas Rangers)

4 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2005

Outstanding Western Fiction
I have read all three of these books separately. Although a trilogy, each can be read on its own. Kelton does an incredible job of creating a sense of place in his novels, and his character development exceeds L'amour's. Highly recommended.

Slaughter (Texas Tradition Series)

3 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Texas Christian University Press, 2008

SLAUGHTER THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE!!!
Elmer Kelton has written another very good book. It is about the slaughter of the buffalo by hide hunters. Kelton writres so you feel like you are there. You can just see the country, the plains, mountains and valleys, the buffalo running. It is all so clear. This is about how people lived at that time. It is about Cephus Browder and his daughter Arletta, who does a man's job but has the feelings ...

Cloudy in the West

11 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 1999

Another outstanding Kelton Western!
Yes, this is a Western, but not in the "shoot 'em up" style so favored by other writers. Kelton takes the time to develop the hopes and fears of young Joey Shipman as he seeks the family he fears he has lost. Can he find it in the drunken cousin he has met only once? Or in the abused prostitute? He certainly will never find it with the stepmother who seems to live to hate him, or with her ...

After the Bugles (Buckalew Family)

2 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2004

good read
I' addicted to Elmer Kelton books I started reading his stories only a couple of months ago and know I have to find all of them and finish them. They are very easy and unforgettable. you will read them over and over again.

The Rebels: Sons of Texas

3 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2007

An excellent conclusion for the Sons of Texas trilogy
It's not a wonder that Elmer Kelton has received so many prestigious awards and accolades from numerous Western writers' associations. This native Texan writes with the authority of one who has lived in the environment he writes about and done the research about the historical details of his subject matter. His saga about the Lewis family, which migrates from Tennessee to Texas before Texas ...

Bowie's Mine (Buckalew Family)
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2003

Daniel Provost is the son of a farmer. Living up to his father's high standards for the farm is very hard work, but his life is basically comfortable and a loving woman is waiting to become his wife. When a well-traveled stranger, bearing a story of Jim Bowie's legendary silver mine, appears at the farm, Daniel might just throw away everything for the chance at adventure he thought had passed him by.

Texas Sunrise: Two Novels of the Texas Republic
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2008

In Texas Sunrise , Elmer Kelton brings together two novels that tell the story of the Texas Revolution as seen by the brothers Thomas and Joshua Buckalew who emigrate to Texas at a time when the Mexican-controlled province welcomes settlers. In Massacre at Goliad , tensions mount between Mexican authorities and American newcomers, and revolution is in the air, something Thomas Buckalew welcomes but Joshua fears – he is in love with a ...

Sons of Texas (Sons of Texas Trilogy 1)

3 reviews
Elmer Kelton

Forge Books, 2006

great read
This is the book that got me hooked on Elmer Kelton I picked this book up in the library and could not put in down. I had to go back the next day and get the others. Soon I was ordering the rest of his books off of Amazon and looking for them in half price book stores. If you read this book you have to finish the trilogy.

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