Elmer Kelton: 66 books
Sandhills Boy
The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
"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...
Wild West
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Compiled for the first time in book form, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton's short story collection, Wild West.
From rodeos to rustlers, from ranch life to the outlaw trail, Elmer Kelton’s take on the human condition shows us life in Texas as it was back then: simpler, but...
The Way of the Coyote
A Novel of the Texas Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
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...
Lone Star Rising
The Texas Rangers Trilogy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In 1999, with Forge's publication of The Buckskin Line, Elmer Kelton launched a series of novels on the formative years of the Texas Rangers. In Texas Justice, the first three of these critically acclaimed books are now brought together in a single volume.
In The Buckskin Line, Kelton introduces the...
by Elmer Kelton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Elmer Kelton, voted "The Greatest Western Writer of All Time" by the Western Writers of America, is a legend in the field of Western literature. Famous for his realistic characters and accurate depictions of the history of his home state of Texas, Elmer Kelton continues to write exceptional...
Ranger's Law
A Lone Star Saga
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Written by the most honored Western writer of all time, Ranger's Law presents three novels from Elmer Kelton's acclaimed saga of the formative years of the Texas Rangers.
In Ranger's Trail, set in the decade following the Civil War, young David "Rusty" Shannon hopes to join the "ranging...
The Smiling Country
A Hewey Calloway Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
"The Smiling Country is about a footloose puncher who finds out the hard way that cowboys don't remain young forever and that the inevitable wear and tear of a rugged life forces changes and compromises on the willing and unwilling alike."— Elmer Kelton
Hewey Calloway did not know...
ReadWest
Stories of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
The Western novel is unique to America, its characters diverse, and its canvas of subject matter infinitely broad. The authors in this story collection make up a perfect model of these criteria. Elmer Kelton, who wrote primarily about Texas, is regarded by his peers as the best to ever write in the...
The Complete Texas Rangers Series
Buckskin Line, Badger Boy, The Way of the Coyote, Ranger's Trail, Texas Vendetta, Jericho's Road, Hard Trail To Follow, Other Men's Horses, Texas Standoff
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This discounted ebundle includes: The Buckskin Line, Badger Boy, The Way of the Coyote, Ranger's Trail, Texas Vendetta, Jericho's Road, Hard Trail To Follow, Other Men's Horses, Texas Standoff
“Elmer Kelton is to Texas what Mark Twain was to the Mississippi River.” —Jory Sherman, author...
by Elmer Kelton
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Bandits, outlaws, romance, and adventure abound in Hard Ride, the second-ever collection of tales of the American West from renowned, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton
Each of Elmer Kelton’s superb stories of the West showcase the strength and power western spirit. They are...
Badger Boy and The Way of the Coyote
Two Complete Texas Rangers Novels
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Badger Boy
The Texas Frontier, 1865: The Civil War is over, and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers who are spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country.
David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" that protects...
by Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, James M. Reasoner
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
LONE STAR LAW
Twelve thrilling Western tales that celebrate the proud heritage of the TEXAS RANGERS
Louis L'Amour leads off this powerful collection with a stunning tale featuring his legendary Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie. Here, too, are superb, action-packed entries from today's outstanding Western...
Texas Vendetta
A Story of the Texas Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Ranger privates Andy Pickard, the onetime Comanche captive called Badger Boy, and the war-anguished Farley Brackett, are assigned to deliver a prisoner to the sheriff of a county some distance from the ranger camp on the San Saba River. The prisoner, Jayce Landon, has recently killed a man named Ned...
The Buckskin Line
A Novel of the Texas Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
"The Buckskin Line tells of Texas' chaotic early years, when a ragtag group of irregular volunteers fought to defend the far edges of settlement from incursion by Indians and frontier outlaws. In time, they would become known as the Texas Rangers."—Elmer Kelton
This is a story of...