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2) Joe Pepper
Author
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
1975
Language
English
Description
Joe Pepper is a Texas badman with quite a past. In fact, there isn't much that Joe hasn't done in his forty years of living on both sides of the Texas law-except face the hangman. Now, convicted of murder, Joe is about to get that privilege. But, before he goes, Joe has a few things he wants to say, and a few stories that he wants to set straight. With Joe Pepper, legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton tells a fine and moving tale of the history of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
FORGE/"A Tom Doherty Associates Book"
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farm boys, 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...
5) Many a river
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton's Many a River, two brothers are orphaned and separated, only to be reunited as enemies on opposing sides of the Civil War.
The Barfield family, Arkansas sharecroppers, are heading west with their sons Jeffrey and Todd. In far West Texas their camp is attacked by Comanche raiders and the elder Barfields are killed and scalped. The younger boy, Todd, is taken captive by the Indians. The older son,...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
255 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident”, that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin-Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute,...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hard Trail to Follow is the seventh novel in Elmer Kelton's acclaimed "Texas Ranger" series from Elmer Kelton
Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, called "Badger Boy" when he lived with Comanches as a child, is following the plow on West Texas land until he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak. The escaped bank robbers are led by a man calling himself Cordell. Andy gets reinstated as a Ranger so he can catch...
Author
Series
A novel of the Texas Rangers volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having finished Texas Standoff, seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton-the Western Writers of America's "Best Western Writer of All Time"-took his leave with 50 notches on his gunbelt of classics. When Ranger Andy Pickard is sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts, two prominent cattlemen are prime suspects. But the rise of a gang of masked vigilantes and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman complicate matters....
10) Six bits a day
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country.
The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits-75 cents-a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
11) Badger boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The Texas Frontier 1865. The Civil War is over and Texas is yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Comanche country. Rusty Shannon finds that the Rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to find his girl married.
12) Jericho's road
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When a rivalry between a white rancher and a Mexican cattle baron escalates to deadly levels, young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard teams up with former Confederate soldier Farley Brackett to prevent a violent showdown.
13) After the bugles
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004, c1995
Edition
1st Forge ed.
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a bitter and bloody war for independence, Texans have finally claimed their freedom from Mexico-but they don't have much else to brag about.
Joshua Buckalew has left behind the deserted battlefields that claimed his brother Thomas. The war has cost him much but it has also given him a strong bond to the land and to the Mexican families who stood with him against the tyrannies of Santa Anna.
Josh is travelling with Ramon Hernandez...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elmer Kelton writes of his beloved home country of West Texas in these two novels of cowmen and cow country.
In Pecos Crossing, two young cowboys, Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, have been cheated of six months' hard-earned salary by their rancher boss Larramore and intend getting what is due to them.
In Shotgun, Texas rancher Blair Bishop has to contend with a rival cowman who is turning his herd loose on Bishop's land, and with a mean customer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
268 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Other Men's Horses, newlywed Texas Ranger Andy Pickard must track down Donley Bannister, on the run after killing a notorious horse thief. But when outlaws ambush Ranger Pickard, Bannister risks his life to rescue his pursuer-giving the injured young ranger reason to pause.
16) The cowboy way
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Cowboy Way, acclaimed western writer Elmer Kelton chronicles the highs and lows of cowboy life. These sixteen tales, collected together for the first time, brim over with action, adventure, brotherhood, betrayal, and the romance of the American West"--
Author
Publisher
Forge, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Cowboy Way, acclaimed western writer Elmer Kelton chronicles the highs and lows of cowboy life. These sixteen tales, collected together for the first time, brim over with action, adventure, brotherhood, betrayal, and the romance of the American West"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
550 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...