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Manhunters (Paperback)
Elmer Kelton; Afterword by Bill Crider
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As he flees to the sanctuary of Mexico, Chacho Fernandez is unaware
of the fuel he has added to the already simmering racial hatreds in
and around the quiet town of Domingo, Texas. Through events set in
motion by a misunderstanding, Chacho becomes a folk hero to his
people and a dangerous fugitive to a group of zealous lawmen.First
published in 1974 by Ballantine Books, ""Manhunters"", the tale of
Chacho's legendary flight, was inspired by the story of
controversial Mexican fugitive Gregorio Cortez. In 1901 Cortez, a
young horseman, shot a sheriff during an argument, leading to the
largest concerted manhunt in Texas history.This novel is alive with
the idiom of Kelton's native West Texas and freely punctuated with
his trademark wry humor. His characters, both the ignorantly petty
as well as the quietly strong, ring true to life.
Welcome to Judge Roy Bean Country! The landscape is big enough and
wild enough to contain any legend even one the size of Judge Roy
Bean. Jack Skiles started with a determination to learn the truth
behind the legend of Judge Roy Bean. Armed with a second-hand tape
recorder in the 1960s, he interviewed Texas Rangers, ranchers,
treasure hunters, and any Langtry old-timer with a good memory and
a story to tell about the Judge. Forty years later, with a lifetime
pursuing the truth, Skiles weaves that oral history and solid
historical research into a compelling panorama of this harsh,
forbidding land West of the Pecos. ""Judge Roy Bean Country"" sets
right some of the most enduring myths about the Judge and Langtry.
But here along the Rio Grande in the rugged Chihuahuan Desert there
are many more tales to tell of heroes, villains, adventure, humor,
and pure misery from the romantic Old West. Following Langtry
native son Jack Skiles into the land West of the Pecos, prepare to
meet one old reprobate by the name of Judge Roy Beanand
history-telling at its very best.
Winner, Mitchell A. Wilder Award for Publication Design, Texas
Association of Museums Folks across the West know a cowpoke named
Jake. A good-hearted guy, he's always up to his eyebrows in debt or
drought or prickly pears looking for them dad-blamed ole wild cows.
In fact, he's so real a fella that it's hard to believe that Ace
Reid made him up. This book brings together 139 of Ace Reid's
popular "Cowpokes" cartoons, reproduced in large format to show the
artistry and attention to detail that characterized Reid's work.
Grouped around themes such as work, weather, bankers, and friends,
they reveal the distinctive "you might as well laugh as cry" sense
of humor that ranch folks draw on to get through hard work and hard
times. In the foreword, Washington Post cartoonist Pat Oliphant
offers an appreciation of Reid's "Cowpokes" cartoons, noting that
"Ace's work has a magic of its own, and it owes nothing to anyone
else." Reid's longtime friend Elmer Kelton recounts Ace's life and
career in the introduction, describing how a shy boy who grew up on
ranch work transformed himself into an artist-entrepreneur who
never met a stranger and who made ranch work the subject of his
real love, cartooning. This collector's volume belongs on the shelf
of everyone who loves the "Cowpokes" cartoons, knows a fella like
Jake, or enjoys the dry wit of the American cowboy.
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.
'A veritable Whos Who of pioneer cattlemen' - Elmer Kelton, from
the Foreword. John and Mahlon Thatcher were two of the many
pioneers looking to begin a new life in the great open spaces of
the West. In the 1860s, the brothers began a small mercantile in
the town of Pueblo, Colorado. From a safe in the corner of their
new store, the brothers founded what was to become the First
National Bank of Pueblo, Colorado and the beginnings of a financial
empire that would encompass cattle companies from New Mexico to
Canada. Together with such legendary figures as Frank Bloom, Henry
Cresswell, O. H. Perry Baxter, William Anderson, Burton Mossman,
and Mahlon T. Everhart, they created a cattle empire, financing and
directing the Bloom Land and Cattle Company, the Diamond A Cattle
Company, and the Hatchet Cattle Company. Their herds of cattle,
horses, and sheep ranged on some eleven million acres of land.
""Great Plains Cattle Empire"" tells their stories, spanning the
years from just after the Civil War through World War II. Paul E.
Patterson managed the Diamond A Cattle Company for twenty-six
years. His work has appeared in ""Field and Stream"", ""New Mexico
Magazine"", ""Western Horseman"", and other publications. Joy Poole
is former director of the Fort Collins Museum in Colorado.
'An outstanding contribution to the historiography of the American
West and likely will remain for a long time the definitive work on
the Texas Panhandle' - Ernest Wallace. 'As one born in the region,
Rathjen is sympathetic to it, but he is also understanding of it;
there is little Chamber of Commerce stuff in his story' - Robert G.
Athearn. The Texas Panhandleits eastern edge descending sharply
from the plains into the canyons of Palo Duro, Tule, Quitaque, Casa
Blanca, and Yellow House is as rich in history as it is in natural
beauty. Long considered a crossroads of ancient civilizations, the
twenty-six northernmost Texas counties lie on the southern reaches
of the Great Plains, where numerous dry creek beds and the Canadian
River have carved the region appropriately named the High Plains.
Through these plains and their canyons, ancient peoples trailed
game for the hunt. The Panhandle provided choice grazing lands for
bison, and as the region became more familiar to ancient tribes,
semipermanent camps marked the landscape. Yet when Coronado's
conquistadores crossed the High Plains in search of fabled wealth
and found sun-baked adobe instead of gold, they declared the region
a wasteland. Likewise, the Republic of Texas found little use for
their vast plains land considering settlement of the frontier far
too dangerous. Not until the late-nineteenth century, as the U.S.
Army waged war on the Comanches, Kiowas, and Cheyennes who lived
there, did Panhandle tracts of frontier open to hard-bitten
settlers who had to prove themselves as indomitable as they were
land hungry. Departing from the premise that the Panhandle frontier
'is but a brush stroke on...[the] much larger canvas' of previous
frontier histories, Rathjen challenges the work of Frederick
Jackson Turner and Walter Prescott Webb, and proves that regional
is by no means synonymous with provincial.
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Honor at Daybreak (Paperback)
Elmer Kelton; Foreword by Joyce Gibson Roach
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Caprock, Texas, is a sleepy cow town until oil is discovered in the
1920s. Suddenly thousands of people stream in to find their
fortune. Some are honest folk like Elise and Victor Underwood, who
pray for a little luck with their daily bread. But too many are
two-bit swindlers. And then there's frontier mobster Big Boy
Daugherty. Sheriff Dave Buckalew faces a whole different set of
circumstances as his town springs to life -- in good and
not-so-good ways.
The town of Caprock is loosely based on Crane in West Texas,
where Kelton grew up, although Crane did not exist until the oil
boom.
Honor at Daybreak represents a departure for Kelton. There is no
single dominant figure. Although Sheriff Buckalew represents a
quiet strength that binds his town together, this is a book in
which an entire community joins together to save itself.
In "Joe Pepper, "the titular character, while awaiting a
hangman's noose, tells the story of how he discovered a propensity
for violence while seeking revenge. The irony is that Joe's keen
sense of justice puts him on he wrong side of the law.
"Long Way to Texas," taking place just after the Civil War battle
of Glorieta Pass in New Mexico, is the story of Lt. David Buckalew,
whose remnant of Confederate riflemen is under siege and low on
rations and water. Complicating matters is the young officer's
self-doubt and fear of failure.
Thomas Canfield of "Eyes of the Hawk, "known to the Mexican
citizens of his town of Stonehill, Texas, as "El Gavilan"--the
Hawk--is not a man to forgive a wrong. He sets out to prove this to
an insolent ranchman rival who intends to build a fortune at
Canfield's expense. The Hawk has a radically different idea: he
will destroy the town before yielding to his enemy.
This omnibus edition of three novels by Elmer Kelton features an
introduction by Dale L. Walker, author of twenty-three novels and a
past president of the Western Writers of America.
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Other Men's Horses
Elmer Kelton
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In "Texas Sunsrise", Elmer Kelton brings together two novels that
tell the story of the Texas Revolution. In "Massacre At Goliad",
tensions mount between Mexican authorities and American newcomers.
Revolution is in the air, something Thomas Buckalew welcomes but
his brother Joshua fears, since Joshua is in love with a Mexican
girl. The story touches on the immortal battle of the Alamo but
centres on the infamous Goliad massacre, and ultimately the
decisive battle of San Jacinto, which made Texas an independent
republic. "After The Bugles" begins where "Massacre At Goliad" ends
- on the battlefield at San Jacinto. Joshua Buckalew tries to put
the pieces back together but finds that starting over in the
aftermath of war can be as challenging as the war itself. The
racial differences that helped foment the conflict have not gone
away. And Texas finds that being an independent republic can be
more difficult than being a colonial extension of Mexico.
"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.
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