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Elmer Kelton


USA flag (1926 - 2009)
Father of Steve Kelton

aka Tom Early, Alex Hawk, Lee McElroy

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. Mr Kelton died on August 22, 2009. He had multiple health problems, and died of natural causes while working on his last book.
 

Genres: Western
 
Series
Tales of Texas
   1. Captain's Rangers (1968)
   Joe Pepper (1976) (as by Lee McElroy)
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Texas Tradition
   The Day the Cowboys Quit (1971)
   Wagontongue (1972)
   The Manhunters (1974)
   The Wolf and the Buffalo (1980)
   Stand Proud (1984)
   Dark Thicket (1985)
   The Man Who Rode Midnight (1987)
   Honor At Daybreak (1991)
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Hewey Calloway
   1. The Smiling Country (1998)
   2. Good Old Boys (1978)
   3. Six Bits a Day (2005)
continued in the series by Steve Kelton
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Sons of Texas (as by Tom Early)
   1. Sons of Texas (1989)
   2. The Raiders (1989)
   3. The Rebels (1990)
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Texas Rangers
   1. The Buckskin Line (1999)
   2. Badger Boy (2001)
   3. Way of the Coyote (2001)
   4. Ranger's Trail (2002)
   5. Texas Vendetta (2004)
   6. Jericho's Road (2004)
   7. Hard Trail to Follow (2008)
   8. Other Men's Horses (2009)
   9. Texas Standoff (2010)
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Novels
   Hot Iron (1955)
   Buffalo Wagons (1956)
   Barbed Wire (1957)
   Shadow of a Star (1959)
   The Texas Rifles (1960)
   Donovan (1961)
   Bitter Trail (1962)
   Horsehead Crossing (1963)
   Massacre at Goliad (1965)
   Llano River (1966)
   After the Bugles (1967)
   Savage Guns (1968) (as by Alex Hawk)
   Hanging Judge (1969)
   Shotgun Settlement (1969) (as by Alex Hawk)
   Bowie's Mine (1971)
   The Time It Never Rained (1973)
   Long Way to Texas (1976) (as by Lee McElroy)
   Eyes of the Hawk (1981) (as by Lee McElroy)
   Slaughter (1992)
   The Best Christmas (1993)
   The Indian in Frontier News (1993)
   The Far Canyon (1994)
   The Pumpkin Rollers (1996)
   Cloudy in the West (1997)
   The Funeral of Tanner Moody (2004) (with John Jakes and Robert J Randisi)
   Noah's Ride (2006) (with others)
   Pecos Crossing (2007)
   Shotgun (2007)
   Many a River (2008)
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Collections
   There's Always Another Chance and Other Stories (1986)
   Big Brand (1986)
   Legend (1999) (with others)
   ReadWest (2011) (with others)
   Wild West (2017)
   The Cowboy Way (2020)
   Law of the Land (2021)
   Lost Trails (2022) (with others)
   Ghost Towns (2022) (with others)
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Anthologies edited
   Best of the West (2003)
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Elmer Kelton recommends
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Massacre at Whip Station (2020)
(O'Malleys of Texas, book 3)
Dusty Richards
"Dusty Richards writes...with the flavor of the real west."
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Nights of the Red Moon (2010)
Milton T Burton
"A long-running poker game, a sting operation, a heist, a secret Nazi past, and to top it all off, a thundering West Texas oil boom. THE ROGUES' GAME pulls them off in a fast-moving thriller."
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Should an Eagle Fall (2010)
Ken Hodgson
"Ken Hodgson pokes a sharp stick in the eye of political correctness with this story of bureaucratic overkill and media bias in today's West."

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