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The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country

Author : Elmer Kelton
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 Good Old Boys

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429912952
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Good Old Boys written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his West Texas home of 1906, the land of the way of life that he loves are changing too quickly for his taste. Hewey dreams of freedom--he wants only to be a footloose horseback cowboy, endlessly wandering the open range. But the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing: land is being parceled out, and barbed-wire fences are spring up all over. As if that weren't enough, cars and other machines are invading Hewey's simple cowboy life, stinking up the area and threatening to replace horse travel. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of "progress", he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is gone, that a man can't live a life whose time has passed, and that every choice he makes--even those that lead to happiness--requires a sacrifice. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Smiling Country

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765360595
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Smiling Country written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboy Hewey Calloway, having always shunned responsibility, finds himself reassessing his life, and regretting his lost love, after he is injured while trying to break a renegade horse.

The Smiling Country

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1466819146
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Smiling Country written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 how old he was without stopping to figure, and that distracted his attention from matters of real importance. Elmer Kelton introduced Texas cowboy Hewey Calloway, one of the most beloved characters in Western fiction, almost thirty years ago in The Good Old Boys. The novel was transformed into a memorable 1995 TV film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek. Hewey returns in The Smiling Country. It is 1910 and his freewheeling life is coming to an end—the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine, in the "smiling country" of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, Hewey sees the loneliness that awaits him, and regrets his decision to run away from the only woman he has ever loved, the schoolteacher Spring Renfro. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Smiling Country

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780812540192
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Smiling Country written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cowboy struggles to adapt to the modern world in 1910s Texas. Hewey Calloway finds it difficult to accept fences, cars and, worst of all--sheep. Also, he is advancing in years, though here there is a consolation, he is teaching the trade to his nephew.

The Buckskin Line

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429962711
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book The Buckskin Line written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 the early days when... An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding from the Union, Rusty has his hands full fighting for the law in lawless Texas and for the life of the woman he loves. If that were not enough of a burden, Rusty is also heading for a showdown with the Comanche warrior who killed his family over twenty years ago. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Time It Never Rained

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429912936
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Time It Never Rained written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance."—Elmer Kelton, Seven-time Spur Award-winning author Rio Seco was too small to afford a professional manager for its one-room Chamber of Commerce. And Rio Seco, meaning "dry river" in Spanish, symbolizes the biggest enemy of the ranchers and farmers in 1950s Texas, an enemy they can't control: drought. To cranky Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a battle that he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable "assistance" of federal aid programs and their bureaucratic regulations, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again—if it ever rains again. Charlie Flagg, among the strongest of Elmer Kelton's memorable creations, is no pasteboard hero. He is courageous and self-sufficient but as real as his harsh and unforgiving West Texas home country. His battle with an unfathomable foe is the stuff of epics and legends. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Stand Proud

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765360571
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Stand Proud written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stand Proud, one of his most controversial novels, legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton takes on a character who is not as easy to like as he is to admire.

Elmer Kelton

Author : Judy Alter
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.

Bitter Trail

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1466818700
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Bitter Trail written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico. Sounds like a peaceable enterprise? The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold--gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army. And, added to his balky mules, the broiling heat, and killing drought of the Mexican dessert, Wheeler has even more serious matters to contend with: His wagons are attacked, his cotton bales are burned, he is captured and tortured by bandidos in league with Union sympathizers, and he is betrayed by his best friend--his former partner and brother of the woman he loves! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Badger Boy

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780812577501
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book Badger Boy written by Elmer Kelton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-01-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rusty Shannon, ending his service as ranger assigned to protect settlers, returns to his home on the Texas frontier to face Civil War renegades and hostile Comanches.

Wild West

Author : Elmer Kelton
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.

Jericho's Road and Hard Trail to Follow

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 0765393522
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 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 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single volume contains the sixth and seventh books in Spur Award-winning author Kelton's acclaimed Texas Rangers series. Tall Premium Edition. Original.

Massacre At Goliad

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429956215
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Massacre At Goliad written by Elmer Kelton and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 1999-09-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Texan-born Josh Buckalew met Teresa, a young and beautiful Mexican woman, it was love at first sight. But with the Alamo recently sieged and destroyed, Josh knew this rosebud love would be unobtainable on account of the war thorns harrowing the country. So the Buckalew brothers, Josh and Thomas, along with Josh's friend Muley, the man-child, come together with other Texans to protect their land at Goliad against the Mexicans who have just ravished the Alamo. But what's at stake for Josh? Will he listen to his brother and become a war hero, eradicating Mexican control? Or will he follow his heart and take Teresa far, far away from all of the bloodshed? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Smiling Country

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606298292
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Smiling Country written by Elmer Kelton and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronted by the changes of the modern era, Hewey, an open range cowboy, had made decisions he felt would best suit the new world of the early twentieth century, yet four years later, he remains haunted by his choices and struggles to make things right o

The Pumpkin Rollers

Author : Elmer Kelton
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.

American Cowboy

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Cowboy written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for devotees of the cowboy and the West, American Cowboy covers all aspects of the Western lifestyle, delivering the best in entertainment, personalities, travel, rodeo action, human interest, art, poetry, fashion, food, horsemanship, history, and every other facet of Western culture. With stunning photography and you-are-there reportage, American Cowboy immerses readers in the cowboy life and the magic that is the great American West.