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Kelton, Elmer Ranger's Law: A Lone Star Saga
New York, New York, U.S.A. Forge 2006 0765315203 / 9780765315205 Trade Paperback Fine
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. 640 pages. Synopsis Ranger's Law brings together the fourth, fifth, and sixth of Elmer Kelton's novels on the formative years of the Texas Rangers. Kelton's young heroes, Rusty Shannon, and one-time Comanche captive, Andy Pickard, fight Indians, outlaws, feuding ranchers, smugglers, and all manner of lawbreakers while trying to make lives for themselves in the tumult of post-Civil War Texas. In Ranger’s Trail it is 1874 and retired Texas Ranger Rusty Shannon is urged to rejoin the force to assist in protecting settlers from Indian raids and outlaw bands. After the girl he loves dies, Rusty goes on a vengeance trail, determined to find and kill the man who has ruined his life. But the trail Rusty is following may lead him to an innocent man. Texas Vendetta takes the young ranger Andy Pickard into the midst of a hate-filled and bloody post-Civil War feud between two Texas families. Pickard, who survived a childhood as a Comanche captive called "Badger Boy," also becomes involved with the young son of an outlaw, a boy who has been "adopted" by the rangers at their San Saba River camp, earning his way as a cook’s helper. The boy’s father, now released from prison, comes to take his son back, and into a life on the run. In Jericho’s Road, Andy Pickard is assigned to the Texas-Mexico border and finds an ominous notice on the edge of a great tract of ranch land above the Rio Grande: "This is Jericho’s Road. Take the Other." The sign signifies Jericho Jackson’s land and Jackson is at war with a similarly ruthless cattle baron on the Mexican side of the river, Guadalupe Chavez. The two rustle each others’cattle, raiding and killing on both sides of the border, heading for a bloody showdown -- with the Texas Rangers standing between them. Biography: Elmer Kelton, author of more than forty novels, grew up on a ranch near Crane, Texas, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas. His first novel, Hot Iron, was published in 1956. For forty-two years he had a parallel career in agricultural journalism. Among his awards have been seven Spurs from Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. Among his best-known works have been The Time It Never Rained and The Good Old Boys, the latter made into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones. He served in the infantry in World War II. He and his wife, Ann, a native of Austria, live in San Angelo, Texas. They have three children, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
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Kelton, Elmer The Day the Cowboys Quit
Bantam Books 1992 0553296698 / 9780553296693 Mass Market Paperback Very Good +
Very-good+, clean copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. Covers are bright and clean, show light wear (NO tears). Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 324 pages. Synopsis: In a Western Writers of America survey, The Day the Cowboys Quit was voted one of the top 25 Best Western Novels of all-time. The time is 1883; the place is the Texas Panhandle. Cowboys refuse to be stigmatized as drinkers and exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who don't pay livable wages. Those very same ranchers want to take away the cowboys' right to own cattle because this ownership, the ranchers believe, would lead to thieving. So, in 1883, the dictum is set: If you're a cowboy, you can't own a cow. When rumors of such legislations travel from wagon to wagon, the cowboys decide to rally and fight for their rights - they gather together and strike. Annotation: When big syndicates moved into the Texas Panhandle, they fenced in the open range and replaced tradition and trust with written rules of employment until the cowboys had finally had enough. In 1883, the cowboys of the Canadian River country went on strike against the big ranches. Listed as one of the Best Western Novels of all time.
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