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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-100765310201
ISBN-139780765310200
eBay Product ID (ePID)113493360
Product Key Features
Book TitleTexas Showdown : Two Texas Novels
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWesterns
Publication Year2012
GenreFiction
AuthorElmer Kelton
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.5 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsKelton's exquisite style develops the themes of a love of liberty and a suspicion of authority that taps deep into Texas' Heritage..., One thing is certain: As long as there are writers as skillful as Elmer Kelton, Western literature will never die., "Kelton's exquisite style develops the themes of a love of liberty and a suspicion of authority that taps deep into Texas' Heritage..." - James L. Haley, Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas "San Angelo novelist Elmer Kelton knows intimately the work and ways of the West. That's why real cowboys love his writing. " - Southern Living "One thing is certain: As long as there are writers as skillful as Elmer Kelton, Western literature will never die." - True West magazine "Elmer Kelton writes of West Texas with unerring authority." - Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Kelton, like fine wine, just keeps getting better and better." - Tulsa World, "Kelton's exquisite style develops the themes of a love of liberty and a suspicion of authority that taps deep into Texas' Heritage..." -- James L. Haley, Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas "San Angelo novelist Elmer Kelton knows intimately the work and ways of the West. That's why real cowboys love his writing. " -- Southern Living "One thing is certain: As long as there are writers as skillful as Elmer Kelton, Western literature will never die." -- True West magazine "Elmer Kelton writes of West Texas with unerring authority." -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Kelton, like fine wine, just keeps getting better and better." -- Tulsa World, "Kelton's exquisite style develops the themes of a love of liberty and a suspicion of authority that taps deep into Texas' Heritage..."- James L. Haley, Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas "San Angelo novelist Elmer Kelton knows intimately the work and ways of the West. That's why real cowboys love his writing. " - Southern Living "One thing is certain: As long as there are writers as skillful as Elmer Kelton, Western literature will never die." - True West magazine "Elmer Kelton writes of West Texas with unerring authority." - Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Kelton, like fine wine, just keeps getting better and better." - Tulsa World, San Angelo novelist Elmer Kelton knows intimately the work and ways of the West. That's why real cowboys love his writing.
Volume NumberNo. 3
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisElmer 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 named Macy Modock, who Bishop sent to prison ten years past. Modock is out of the hoosegow and has returned determined to get even with the man who sent him up the river.