Cowboy Bookworm

In this novel, first published by Doubleday in 1985, Texas novelist Elmer Kelton returns to the Civil War period, once again examining, as he first did in Texas Rifles, the effect of the war on Texans at home. Even while the conflict raged to the east, se

Winner of the Spur Award from Western Writers of America and chosen one of the twenty-six best Western novels by a panel of experts from Western Writers of America.

Another classic from Elmer Kelton and considered by some to perhaps be his best.

The second volume of this prolific western writer's Sons of Texas trilogy (after Sons of Texas) is a colorful, if action-deficient, lesson in Texas history 1825?1826.

Seven-time Spur Award winner Kelton concludes the Sons of Texas trilogy with the strongest entry, set in the mid 1830s.

This volume brings together two of Kelton's short novels written in the 1960s, under the blanket association of being vengeance tales of a sort set in Texas.

Another classic from Elmer Kelton. First published in 1972 by Bantam as a mass market paperback, Wagontongue is one of Elmer Kelton's classic novels, exploring racial relations on the West Texas plains in the low-key, wry, and compassionate voice that cha

Part of the Texas Traditional Series from TCU Press. It is designed to publish and preserve Texas literature.

Written by Elmer Kelton and number 13 in the Texas Tradition Series, published by TCU Press

A Western classic written by Elmer Kelton