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Elmer Kelton (April 29, 1926 – August 22, 2009) was an American author, known for his Westerns. He was born in Andrews County, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas in 1948. Kelton worked as the farm and ranch editor of the San Angelo Standard-Times from 1948 to 1963. He served as the associate editor of Livestock Weekly from 1968 to 1990. Kelton's memoir, Sandhills Boy, was published in 2007. Kelton's novels won seven Spur Awards, from the Western Writers of America, and three Western Heritage Awards, from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. He also received a Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement. Awards Bibliography Partial list of works: Texas Ranger novels: References External links elmerkelton.net, Kelton's official website Elmer Kelton's page. - Macmillan.com The Story of Elmer Kelton Kelton's papers, 1948-1985. - Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University Wall Street Journal on Elmer Kelton Elmer Kelton interview with Bradley D. Pettit. - AmericanCowboy.com Texas Rangers Audiobooks - GraphicAudio.net. Discover the Elmer Kelton popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Elmer Kelton books.

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    Elmer Kelton

    Dr. Judy Alter Ph.D & James Ward Lee

    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 oldstyle we...

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    Texas Vendetta

    Elmer Kelton

    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 histo...

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    Stand Proud and Eyes of the Hawk

    Elmer Kelton

    Elmer Kelton's Stand Proud and Eyes of the Hawk are two novels of fierce men tested by the Old West, written by one of the most critically acclaimed writers of the American west an...

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    Lone Star Law

    Louis L'Amour

    A thrilling collection of twelve powerful and actionpacked stories that celebrate the legendary Texas Rangers from Louis L’Amour, the world’s greatest Western storyteller, Rod Mill...

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    Lone Star Rising

    Elmer Kelton

    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 t...

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    The Way of the Coyote

    Elmer Kelton

    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 ...

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    Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West

    Elmer Kelton

    Two complete novels from the Western author Elmer Kelton in one lowpriced edition: Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West Buffalo Wagons For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has be...

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    Dark Thicket

    Elmer Kelton

    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 m...

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    Hot Iron and The Time It Never Rained

    Elmer Kelton

    With Hot Iron and The Time It Never Rained, this omnibus by legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton offers two complete novels of the American West at one low price Hot IronIn the ea...

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    The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country

    Elmer Kelton

    The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country pairs two wonderful novels by one of the most honored of all western writers, Elmer KeltonThe Good Old BoysHewey Calloway has a problem. H...

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    Many a River

    Elmer Kelton

    In seventime Spur Awardwinning author Elmer Kelton's Many a River, two brothers are orphaned and separatedonly to be reunited as enemies on opposing sides of the Civil War.The Barf...