Elmer Kelton

For decades, Charlie Flagg has eked out a living by raising cattle and sheep on his Texas ranch. But as rainless years continue, Charlie finds himself under increasing pressure....

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....

Hewey Calloway is between a rock and a hard place: The open range and simple life of his childhood are disappearing. He can't live a cowboy life whose time has passed and he's not ready yet for the new challenges of the 20th century....

A Comanche war party raids settlements and steals horses. A young warrior named Buffalo Caller kills a young couple, then abducts their red-haired little boy....

In Badger Boy, Kelton effortlessly sweeps listeners back to the post-Civil War Texas frontier, where ranger Rusty Shannon hopes to settle down as a respectable farmer....

Texas Rifles is an action-filled tale of courage in the face of divided loyalties....

Ranger's Trail takes listeners back to 1874 for a rousing tale of the legendary Texas Rangers....

Rancher Blair Bishop of Two Forks, Texas, has too many enemies...and they are closing in on him....

Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers and land hungry thugs....

In the Texas backlands in 1885, 12-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, forcing him to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. Soon, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin - Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird....

Thomas Canfield descends from a line of Texas's earliest settlers. He is a proud man with a fierce-eyed stare. When Branch Isom - an insolent, dangerous newcomer - seeks to build his fortune at Canfield's expense, an all-out feud ensues....

Hewey Calloway may be pushing 45, but he can still rope and outride most things on four legs....

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....

Nearly 70, Wes Hendricks has led a tough and colorful life as a cowboy and broncobuster, and all he asks now is that he be left alone on his poor, hardscrabble ranch in the West Texas hill country. Not a chance....

In the midst of a long-standing family feud, three Rangers must fight to keep order in the tenuous state of post-Civil War Texas....

In this novel, 18-year-old farmer Trey McLean aspires to be a cattle rancher....

Chosen by his peers as the best Western writer of all time and honored with an unprecedented seven Spur Awards, Elmer Kelton is “one of the giants of the Western genre” ( Booklist).....

In this final novel of the Texas Rangers, a young lawman finds his mettle put to the test while bringing justice to a remote settlement....

From seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton comes a riveting tale befitting the Western Writers of America’s Greatest Western Writer of all time....

In The Far Canyon, Kelton masterfully unveils for his listener the finality of the buffalo’s demise, the beginning of a time when cattle would replace the American bison on the Southern plains and ultimately end the Plains Indian culture....