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(0)Elmer Kelton
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south-but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aging cowboy and bronco-buster Wes Hendricks just wants to be left alone on his poor ranch, even when town developers offer him big money to sell it. Wes's grandson reluctantly tries to convince him to give up his home, but that was before he, too, succumbs to the ranch's--and a young cowgirl's--wild beauty.
3) Stand proud
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2000, c1984
Edition
1st Forge ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 306 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
On trial for murder, Frank Claymore, an old Texas rancher, recalls his experiences as a young man and the events that led to his trial.
4) Bitter trail
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996, c1962
Edition
1st Forge ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
217 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico. Sounds like a peaceable enterprise. The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold, gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army.
And, added to his balky mules, the broiling heat, and killing drought of the Mexican dessert, Wheeler has even more...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
Rei
Language
English
Description
In later years people often asked Hugh Hitchcock about the Canadian River cowboy strike of 1883. Wagon boss Hugh Hitchcock knows the cowboy life better than most: In 1883 if you're a cowboy, you can't own a cow and you are stigmatized as a drunk. Worse, you are exploited by the wealthy cattle owners who fence the range, replace traditions and trust with written rules of employment, refuse to pay a livable wage and change things that ought to be left...
6) Texas Rifles
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six-time winner of the Golden Spur Award, Elmer Kelton crafts stories that carry listeners into some of the most vivid years of the American West. Texas Rifles is an action-filled tale of courage in the face of divided loyalties. In 1861, men are enlisting in the Texas Mounted Rifles to keep the land free from Indian raids. There are larger conflicts, however. Texas has seceded from the union while war brews between the North and the South. Sam Houston...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1999, c1973
Edition
1st Forge ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
x, 400 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forged from Elmer Kelton's 1950s observations of drought-ravaged West Texas, this Spur Award winner-written by the WWA's greatest Western writer-tells the compelling story of one rancher's struggle to maintain his independence. But as rainless years continue and farmers and ranchers sell their souls for federal hand-outs, Charlie finds himself under increasing pressure to compromise his principles.
8) Manhunters
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1974
Physical Desc
166 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Working faithfully for a Texas rancher despite his family's warnings, Chacho Fernandez steals his payment when his dishonest employer refuses to compensate him and is falsely accused of murdering a lawman.