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Other Men's Horses (Texas Rangers)
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 2009
The last one was a good one
I was not disappointed in any way by this book, except that it was Kelton's last book. He will be sorely missed. He reuses some tried and true formulas and puts them together in a good book. A good read all around.
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Many a River
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 2009
Holds attention beginning to end
Reviewed by Lisa Kisner for Reader Views (9/08)
Jeffrey and Todd Barfield are traveling west with their parents searching for the perfect home site to live and farm. Their dreams for the future are shattered when Comanche Indians attack their camp and kill both ...
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The Way of the Coyote (Texas Rangers)
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 2002
wstrnnut
This is the fourth Elmer Kelton book I have read this year and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you are looking for an authentic western with believable plot and story line ... you can't go wrong with Elmer Kelton.
Staged in the reconstruction years of early Texas, it ...
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Texas Sunrise: Two Novels of the Texas Republic
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 2008
Superb Kelton Two-Fer
You just can't go wrong with Kelton. This is the 3rd of the two-fer paperback originals released by Forge--the earlier titles being TEXAS SHOWDOWN and MANY A RIVER. Unlike those, this one really makes sense--MASSACRE AT GOLIAD (1965) and AFTER THE BUGLES (1967) being a ...
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Llano River
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 2004
Great Western Storyteller
Elmer Kelton is one of the great storytellers in the western genre. If you like Louis Lamour or Giles Tippette, you will find Elmer Kelton's books just as enjoyable. His characters are complete, complex, likeable people who are dealing with what life throws at them. ...
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The Time It Never Rained
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 2008
READ THIS BOOK! Perhaps a good book for a book club?
This is a beautifully told story about west Texas during the 1950's that examines several topics that are incredibly relevant for American in 2009. Although it is a work of fiction, it broaches the subjects of dealing with a horrible economy, government bailout ...
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A Thousand Miles of Mustangin'
Ben K. Green
High Lonesome Books, 1998
A Thousand Miles of Mustangin'
Ben K. Green was equally adept at roping a steer, riding a bronc and spinning a yarn. You will feel that you are sitting around his campfire eatin' a mess of good chuck and slapping your sides laughing at one of his longest adventures ever; rounding up a renegade herd ...
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The Day the Cowboys Quit
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 2008
Well-written story of conflict on the open range. . .
Kelton's novel has some of the ingredients of pulp western fiction - big ranchers against the little guys, justice at the end of a rope, an honorable hero wearing a sheriff's badge - but he brings a great deal of insight, experience, and historical background to the ...
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Hard Trail To Follow (Texas Rangers)
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 2008
Reviewing: "Hard Trail To Follow"
Andy Pickard loves Bethel and there is no doubt about that. In his late 20's, this former Texas Ranger understands why Bethel won't leave the family farm and her ill mother. He doesn't understand why Farley Brackett, his future brother-in-law hates him so much or why ...
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The Good Old Boys
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 1999
Takes me back there
I hope some day they show this to the kids in school. This is the way it really was. I lived there from 1953-1958, and even after so many years away, and despite the fact that the setting is removed by 50 years, the country and the kinds of people were virtually ...
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The Man Who Rode Midnight (Texas Tradition Series)
Elmer Kelton
Texas Christian University Press, 1990
As usual, a superb Kelton book
What makes Elmer Kelton stand out is not only his style of writing, and his subject matter (the value of which, I admit, is subjective), but the admirable qualities of his characters. In so many other books, main characters are filled with angst and cynicism, and a ...
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Barbed Wire
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 2007
BARBED WIRE IS TO THE POINT!!!
Have read several books by Elmer Kelton and have enjoyed them all. This one is no exception. It is about Doug Monahan and the stringing of barbed wire in Texas when it was not popular. He is fought by Andrew Rinehart who has been there a long time and has always done ...
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Hot Iron
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 1998
A great old-fashioned story
This book of Kelton's is written a lot more in the old style of western writing that older readers will understand and love. Even younger readers! It reads like a Louis L'Amour, only a lot more factual and believable. Kelton is no doubt the best of the best! Well, I ...
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Ranger's Law: A Lone Star Saga (Texas Rangers)
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 2007
Ranger's Law
I love his character development. Having read about 10 or 12 of Kelton's books I can say he is, in my opinion, the best Western author ever. I love the story lines and the way he develops and stages the story. You rarely know how the story will develop and the ...
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Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy
Elmer Kelton
Forge Books, 2005
Not your ordinary Western
Mr. Kelton does an excellent job developing characters and weaving them into the story. I found the story to be suprisingly intriguing and unpredictable. I plan to read more of his work.
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