Jericho's Road and Hard Trail to Follow

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1250187087
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Jericho's Road and Hard Trail to Follow written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books 6 & 7 in Elmer Kelton's acclaimed Texas Rangers series, offered together at one low price Jericho’s Road “This is Jericho’s Road. Take the Other.” When young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned to the Texas-Mexico border, he learns the meaning of this ominous notice on the edge of a great tract of land above the Rio Grande. Rancher Jericho Jackson is at war with a similarly ruthless cattle baron on the Mexican side of the river. The two men are rustling each other’s cattle, raiding and killing on both sides of the border, and heading for a bloody showdown—with only Pickard and his fellow Texas Rangers standing between them. Hard Trail to Follow Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is following the plow in West Texas when he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak led by a man called Cordell. Reinstated as a Ranger so he can get justice for Tom Blessing, Andy pursues Cordell even as evidence mounts that the escaped man did not kill Blessing. Pickard will see justice done no matter what it takes. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Jericho's Road

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 9780765363701
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Jericho's Road written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Jericho's Road. Take the Other. When the young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned to the Texas-Mexico border he learns the meaning of this ominous notice on the edge of a great tract of ranch land above the Rio Grande. It is Jericho Jackson's country and Jackson is at war with a similarly ruthless cattle baron on the Mexican side of the river, Guadalupe Chavez. The two men are rustling each others' cattle, raiding and killing on both sides of the border, and heading for a bloody showdown-with the Texas Rangers standing between them.

Jericho's Road

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429912774
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Jericho's Road written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Texas Ranger private Andy Pickard is assigned to help patrol the Texas-Mexico border country he rides directly into a deadly feud. At odds are two land and cattle barons - Jericho Jackson, whose great spread lies just north of the Rio Grande, and Guadalupe Chavez, whose domain lies south of the river. The men are alike in only one respect: their hatred for each other, a hate born at the time of the Alamo and the U.S.-Mexican War, when Mexican lands were confiscated by ruthless Americans. The old rivals have turned to preying on each others' cattle with resulting bloodshed on both sides of the river. Between the two camps, Big Jim McCawley's ranch seems almost symbolic of the opportunity for the people of the two nations to live together. McCawley is married to Guadalupe Chavez's sister, Juana -a fact that does not ingratiate him to either the Chavez or Jackson faction. To Andy Pickard, who as a child was taken captive by Comanches, old prejudices are familiar territory, but the Jackson-Chavez war is flaring out of control by the time he reaches the Ranger camp on the border in the company of fellow Ranger Farley Brackett. The two Rangers find themselves caught up in the feud, risking arrest for crossing the river into Mexico, and risking death for not heeding the warning sign at the edge of Jericho Jackson's domain: This is Jericho's Road. Take the Other. Inevitably, the cauldron boils over and the forces of Jericho Jackson and "Lupe" Chavez meet in bloody combat. In the midst of this battle on Mexican soil are Andy Pickard -- longing to court and marry Bethel Brackett and live a peaceful life as an ex-Ranger -- and Brackett himself, falling in love with Teresa, Big Jim McCawley's half-Mexican daughter. Jericho's Road, sixth book in Kelton's acclaimed Texas Ranger series, typifies "The right blend of action, drama, romance, humor and suspense" that Publishers Weekly said has made Kelton "a master of both plot and character development." At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Hard Trail To Follow

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765315229
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Hard Trail To Follow written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard's friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, is killed during the escape of a trio of bank robbers, he is reinstated and picks up their trail to bring the killer to justice.

Bitter Trail

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0812551184
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Bitter Trail written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wagon train leader Frio Wheeler is hired to haul cotton from Texas into Mexico, but soon he becomes caught up in the turmoil of the Civil War.

Sandhills Boy

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429909269
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Sandhills Boy written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 testament and tribute to the American West. But who is that Texas gentleman with the white Stetson and rimless eyeglasses whose friendly face appears on so many book jackets? Sandhills Boy is Kelton's memoir, a funny and poignant story of "a freckle-faced country boy, green as a gourd, a sheep ready to be sheared," growing up in the wild, dry, sandhills of West Texas. The son of a working cowboy and ranch foreman, Elmer was expected to follow in his father's footsteps but learned at an early age that he had no talents in the cowboy's trade. Buck Kelton called Elmer "Pop," said he was "slow as the seven-year itch," and reluctantly supported his son's decision to become a student at the University of Texas, and, eventually, a journalist and writer. Kelton's life in ranch and oil patch Texas during the Great Depression is told with warm nostalgic humor animated with stories of the cowboys and their wives and kids who gave the time and place its special flavor. He writes with great feeling of his service in WW2 in France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, and the romantic circumstances in which his life changed in the village of Ebensee, Austria. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Wild West

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1250161142
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Wild West written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collected for the first time in one volume"--Jacket.

Llano River

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765343017
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Llano River written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Llano River," Dundee works to stop a cattle rustling operation and gets caught in the middle of a deadly feud.

Other Men's Horses

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765360306
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Other Men's Horses written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard sets out to arrest a trader accused of killing a horse thief, but 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.

Badger Boy

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429912707
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Badger Boy written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Frontier, 1865 The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. David "Rusty" Shannon, proud member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his land on the Red River, hoping to take up the life of a farmer and the hand of the beloved girl he left behind, Geneva Monahan. But Geneva has married in Rusty's long absence and the country is filled with hostiles—not just Indians, but hate-filled Confederates, overbearing Union soldiers, and army renegades. Rusty's youth as a captive of the Comanches returns to haunt him when, in pursuit of Indian raiders, he takes as prisoner Badger Boy, a white child taken from his murdered parents by a Comanche warrior. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Elmer Kelton

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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875654495
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Elmer Kelton written by Judy Alter and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Elmer Kelton died in the fall of 2009, the literary world lost a consummate writer, a man the New York Times called a “novelist who brought the sensibility of the old-style western to bear on a modern Texas landscape of oil fields and financially troubled ranches.” Kelton was also a modest, kind man, always willing to advise a struggling writer or write a blurb for a first time published author, or assign publishing rights to his six masterpieces to a small university press. TCU Press owes a great debt of gratitude to Kelton, and this volume, Elmer Kelton: Memories and Essays, attempts to explore just what it is that made Kelton its leading author. Editors Judy Alter and James Ward Lee gathered together a group of Kelton aficionados who had either published or taught or sold his books, or were simply friends. In several meetings, they divided up the main themes of Kelton’s writing: Alter provides the overview of Kelton’s career; Felton Cochran, longtime owner of Cactus Books in San Angelo, describes how the friendship between bookstore owner and author grew over the years; Ricky Burk, pastor of the church from which Kelton was buried, talks about the man’s influence in his community; Kelton’s son, Steve, explains how Kelton’s career as journalist permeated his novels; Ruth McAdams, who has taught Kelton for years, explores how he deals with the themes of endurance and change; Joyce Roach delicately covers how race and ethnicity figure in Kelton’s plots and the development of his unforgettable characters; Lee gives readers his inimitable take on the Hewey Calloway Trilogy—The Good Old Boys, The Smiling Country, and Six Bits a Day; and Bob J. Frye takes a wry look at Kelton’s use of humor throughout his career. The book also contains Kelton’s own view of the history of the Western novel, a response to revisionist criticism. And finally Cochran provides us a list of most, not all, of Elmer Kelton’s extraordinary body of work.

Ranger's Trail and Texas Vendetta

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1466867914
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Ranger's Trail and Texas Vendetta written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two complete novels from Elmer Kelton in one low-priced edition Ranger's Trail Spring of 1874: Ranger companies are being reorganized and David "Rusty" Shannon is the most sought-after veteran. But he has a new goal: to marry Josie Monahan. He also feels responsibility for Andy Pickard, who he rescued from the Comanche. But tragedy changes Rusty's plans and bent on revenge, he pursues Josie's killer. But the trail he follows may lead him astray. Texas Vendetta Young Andy Pickard is in the midst of a bloody vendetta. Pickard and Farley Brackett, a former Confederate soldier, must deliver prisoner Jayce Landon to the sheriff of a neighboring county for killing a man named Ned Hopper. The assignment is complicated, for the Landon and Hopper families are in a blood feud: the Landons to free Jayce, the Hoppers to kill him. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Texas Vendetta

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 142991274X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Texas Vendetta written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Vendetta, fifth in Elmer Kelton's memorable and critically acclaimed Texas Rangers series, is filled with the author's always engaging characters and is set against the historically accurate backdrop of the turmoil of post-Civil War Texas. 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 Hopper and is to stand trial for murder. The rangers quickly learn that the Landon and Hopper families are involved in a blood feud and that Jayce Landon is the target of both clans: the Landons want to rescue him and the Hoppers want to kill him. Worse, Jayce is to be delivered, jailed, and tried for murder in Hopper's Crossing, a settlement owned, populated, and run by the family dedicated to killing Jayce and all his Landon kin. The young rangers soon encounter the main figures in the hate-filled Hopper clan -Big'un, a huge lout who is deputy sheriff at Hopper's Crossing, and Judd Hopper, county judge and patriarch of the family. And when Jayce escapes, hell breaks loose with the rangers caught between the warring factions. Andy Pickard, reunited with his old mentor, retired ranger Rusty Shannon, has another problem or two to deal with. He is worried about Scooter Tennyson, a young son of an outlaw who has been "adopted" by the rangers at their San Saba River camp and who earns his way as a cook's helper. Scooter's father, now released from prison, has come to take his son back-and into a life on the run. And Andy has a growing affection for Bethel Brackett, sister of his worrisome partner, Farley. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Badger Boy and The Way of the Coyote

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1466889314
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Badger Boy and The Way of the Coyote written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 settlers from Indian depredations, finds that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his land on the Red River, hoping to take up the life of a farmer and the hand of the beloved girl he left behind, Geneva Monohan. But Geneva has married in Rusty's long absence, and the country has filled with hostiles-not just Indians, but hate-filled Confederates, overbearing Union soldiers, and army renegades. Rusty's youth as a captive of Comanches returns to haunt him when he takes as a prisoner Badger Boy, a white child taken from his murdered parents by a Comanche warrior. The Way of the Coyote 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 is intertwined with the young man accompanying him: Andy Pickard, himself but recently rescued from Comanche captivity and known by his captors as Badger Boy. Texas is in turmoil, overrun with murderous outlaws, lawmen exacting penalties from suspected former Confederates, night-riders, and the ever-dangerous Comanche bands. In this tempestuous time and place, Rusty tries desperately to resume his pre-war life. His friend Shanty, a freed slave, is burned out of his home by the Ku Klux Klan; his own homestead is confiscated by his special nemesis, the murderous Oldham brothers; and the son of a girl he once loved is kidnapped by Comanches. Elmer Kelton, most honored of all Western writers, writes of the formative years of the Texas Rangers with the knowledge of a native Texan and the skill of a master story-teller. In Rusty Shannon, tough and smart-necessary survival attributes on the 1860s Texas frontier-Kelton has created one of the most memorable characters in modern western fiction. This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 0765394022
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country pairs two wonderful novels by one of the most honored of all western writers, Elmer Kelton The Good Old Boys Hewey Calloway has a problem. He wants to be a footloose cowboy, endlessly wandering the land on horseback, but the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing. Land is being parceled out, barbed-wire fences are springing up all over, and cars are replacing the horse as a mode of transportation. Swimming against the tide of “progress,” Hewey begins to understand that the time of the cowboy is over, that the life he dreams of has become part of the past. He must find a new path to happiness—one that may require a great sacrifice. The Smiling Country It is now 1910 and Hewey Calloway’s freewheeling life is coming to an end—the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are even creeping in to remote Alpine in the “smiling country” of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, Hewey’s regrets over his lost love, schoolteacher Spring Renfro haunt him as he sees the loneliness that awaits him. The Smiling Country is filled with humor, love, and the lore of the cowboy life at a time when the great, free, open ranges of the West were adjusting to a new, technological era. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Pumpkin Rollers

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429932457
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Pumpkin Rollers written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farmboys, almost more trouble than they were worth. When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as green as they come. But Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry. And when luck finally sets him on a cattle drive to Kansas, Trey learns the trade from veteran drover Ivan Kerbow, but he also learns the code of violence and death from outlaw Jarrett Longacre, a man who will plague his life at every turn. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Dark Thicket

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Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429978392
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Dark Thicket written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's greatest Western storytellers, Elmer Kelton has been voted the greatest Western writers of all time by the Western Writers of America. Dark Thicket is one of his many classic tales of the history of his home state of Texas. Young Owen Danforth rides home to Texas as a wounded Confederate soldier, at a time when his home state is as savagely divided as his nation. As a grievously wounded America staggers toward the inevitable end of the Civil War, secessionist "home guards" and staunch Union loyalists fight their own bloody battles on a more local scale. For Owen, sick to death of fighting and yearning for peace and recuperation, his homecoming is bittersweet. And when his blood ties force him to choose a side in an unwinnable conflict, Owen begins to wonder if he will ever see peace in Texas again. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.