Elmer Kelton
4) Donovan
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Donovan was supposed to be dead. The town of Dry Fork, southern Texas, had buried him years before when Uncle Joe Vickers had fired off both barrels of a shotgun into the vicious outlaw's face as he was escaping from jail. Now, Uncle Joe has been shot-in just the same way. And Judge Upshaw had found a noose hanging on his door. It looked as though Donovan was back-gunning for the people who had tracked him down and tried him. Sheriff Webb Matlock,...
5) Llano River
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When former cattle man Dundee wanders into the town of Titusville, he's broke, tired and itching for a fight. Instead, he gets a job offer...from none other than the top man in town, John Titus. Titus recruits Dundee to find out who's rustling his extensive herd of cattle. But for Titus, it isn't enough that Dundee find the missing cattle. He wants to place the blame on a specific person...Blue Roan Hardesty, a one-time friend turned sworn enemy of...
6) Texas rifles
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Language
English
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Description
Virginian Sam Houston Cloud had no desire to fight against his own country, so he joins up with the Texas Mounted Rangers in that state's war against the Comanches.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Nothing stirs up emotions in Texas like men stealing other men's horses. Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned what seems to be a routine duty. West Texas horse trader Donley Bannister has killed a thug named Cletus Slocum who stole one of his horses. Ranger Pickard is to find and arrest Bannister, and bring him to trial. But the case turns out to be anything but routine. When Pickard finds him holed up with some cohorts, Bannister saves the Ranger's...
8) Manhunters
Author
Series
Texas tradition volume no. 22
Language
English
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Description
Based on the 1901 hunt for Gregorio Cortez, this is the story of Chacho Fernandez, who becomes a folk hero to his people and a dangerous fugitive to a group of zealous lawmen.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Other men's horses: Setting out to arrest a trader accused of killing a horse thief, young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard finds the case complicated by the trader's honor-bound nature, a situation that makes Andy wonder if he is fighting on the right side.
Texas standoff: Newly married Texas Ranger Andy Pickard and his new partner, Logan Daggett, investigate a series of murders and cattle thefts in central Texas, a task complicated by a gang of masked...
10) Hot iron
Author
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1998, ©1956
Language
English
Description
In the early days of the Texas panhandle, starting a new life is hard. Espy Norwood is a troubleshooter who's got troubles of his own--and more troubles find him when he lands a job on a ranch on the Texas plains. Bitter landowners plot against him, determined cattle thieves sneak right under his nose, and his own son refuses to trust or even know him. Can he catch the thieves, save the ranch, and win his son's love?
14) Stand proud
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000, ©1990
Language
English
Description
"Elmer Kelton writes of early Texas with unerring authority. His knowledge of the state's history is complete, too-drawn from the lives of real people ... The fate of Texas is at hand, and Kelton will have readers eager to find out what happens."-
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything inbetween, from the legendary author of the west, Elmer Kelton. Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time--including the exciting first publication of a never-before published Kelton story, Biscuits for Bandit"--
Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Elmer Kelton) volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
©2001
Language
English
Author
Series
Sons of Texas (Elmer Kelton) volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1830s, the Lewis brothers--Andrew, Michael, and James--the sons of Mordecai Lewis, become caught up in the fierce battle for Texas independence from Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In "The Pumpkin Rollers," Rusty Shannon rides out to join a group of volunteers dedicated to protecting settlers against Indian raids; and in "The Buckskin Line," a farm boy becomes an apprentice to a veteran cowboy and clashes with an outlaw.