Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was award-winning author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, Other Men’s Horses, Texas Standoff and Hard Trail to Follow. He grew up on a ranch near Crane, Texas, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas. His first novel, Hot Iron, was published in 1956. Among his awards have been seven Spurs from Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. His novel The Good Old Boys was made into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones. In addition to his novels, Kelton worked as an agricultural journalist for 42 years. He served in the infantry in World War II. He died in 2009. http://us.macmillan.com/author/elmerk...
Series
Books
Sons of Texas and The Raiders
Sons of Texas: Two Complete Novels of the American West
2020
Bowie's Mine
1971
Bitter Trail
1959
The Way of the West
2008
Law of the Gun
2010
Hard Trail to Follow
2008
Sandhills Boy
The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer
2007
Stand Proud and Eyes of the Hawk
Two Complete Novels of the American West
2018
The Good Old Boys
1978
Stand Proud
1984
The Wolf and the Buffalo (Texas Tradition Series)
1980
Captain's Rangers
1968
Jericho's Road
2004
Ranger's Trail
2002
Hot Iron
1956
The Buckskin Line
1999
Manhunters (Texas Tradition
1994
Brush Country
Two Texas Novels
2006
Many a River
2008
The Man Who Rode Midnight
1987
After the Bugles
1967
The Time It Never Rained
1973
Texas Sunrise
Two Novels of the Texas Republic
2008
Long Way to Texas
Three Novels by Elmer Kelton
1987
Massacre at Goliad
1965
Barbed Wire
1980
The Raiders
Sons of Texas
2006
The Best of Texas Folklore, Volumes 1 & 2
2003
Wild West
Short Stories
2017
Buffalo Wagons
1957
Pecos Crossing
1963
Wagontongue (Texas Tradition Series)
1972
Six Bits a Day
2005
The Big Brand
1986
The Smiling Country
1998
Donovan
1961
Hanging Judge
1988
Shadow of a Star
1984
Honor at Daybreak
1991
Shotgun
2007
Texas Vendetta
2004
Texas Standoff
A Novel of the Texas Rangers
2010
The Day the Cowboys Quit
1971
The Way of the Coyote
2001
Horsehead Crossing
1963
Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West
Two Complete Novels
2015
Texas Rifles and Massacre at Goliad
2013
The Pumpkin Rollers
1996
Law of the Land
Stories of the Old West
2021
The Rebels
Sons of Texas
2007
Sons of Texas
1989
Llano River
1982
Captain's Rangers and The Day the Cowboys Quit
Two Complete Novels of the American West
2019
Donovan and Dark Thicket
2012
Dark Thicket
1985
Slaughter
1992
Cloudy in the West
1997
Texas Showdown
Two Texas Novels
2007
The Far Canyon
1994
Shotgun and Six Bits a Day
Two Complete Novels
2014
Other Men's Horses
2002
The Art of Howard Terpning
1992
Long Way to Texas
1976
The Art of James Bama
1993
Hard Ride
Stories of the Old West
2018
Badger Boy
2001
Eyes of the Hawk
1981
Texas Rifles
1960
ReadWest
Stories of the American West
2011
Joe Pepper
1975
The Cowboy Way
Stories of the Old West
2020
