The Time it Never Rained
Author | : Elmer Kelton |
Publisher | : TCU Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780912646893 |
Repub. of Doubleday 1973 edition, with new introductions by Kelton and an afterword.
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Author | : Elmer Kelton |
Publisher | : TCU Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780912646893 |
Repub. of Doubleday 1973 edition, with new introductions by Kelton and an afterword.
Author | : Elmer Kelton |
Publisher | : Forge Books |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 142991274X |
Texas Vendetta, fifth in Elmer Kelton's memorable and critically acclaimed Texas Rangers series, is filled with the author's always engaging characters and is set against the historically accurate backdrop of the turmoil of post-Civil War Texas. Ranger privates Andy Pickard, the onetime Comanche captive called Badger Boy, and the war-anguished Farley Brackett, are assigned to deliver a prisoner to the sheriff of a county some distance from the ranger camp on the San Saba River. The prisoner, Jayce Landon, has recently killed a man named Ned Hopper and is to stand trial for murder. The rangers quickly learn that the Landon and Hopper families are involved in a blood feud and that Jayce Landon is the target of both clans: the Landons want to rescue him and the Hoppers want to kill him. Worse, Jayce is to be delivered, jailed, and tried for murder in Hopper's Crossing, a settlement owned, populated, and run by the family dedicated to killing Jayce and all his Landon kin. The young rangers soon encounter the main figures in the hate-filled Hopper clan -Big'un, a huge lout who is deputy sheriff at Hopper's Crossing, and Judd Hopper, county judge and patriarch of the family. And when Jayce escapes, hell breaks loose with the rangers caught between the warring factions. Andy Pickard, reunited with his old mentor, retired ranger Rusty Shannon, has another problem or two to deal with. He is worried about Scooter Tennyson, a young son of an outlaw who has been "adopted" by the rangers at their San Saba River camp and who earns his way as a cook's helper. Scooter's father, now released from prison, has come to take his son back-and into a life on the run. And Andy has a growing affection for Bethel Brackett, sister of his worrisome partner, Farley. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Elmer Kelton |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1998-03-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0812551192 |
In the early days of the Texas panhandle, Espy Norwood is a troubleshooter who's got troubles of his own. Bitter landowners plot against him, determined cattle thieves sneak right under his nose, and his own son refuses to trust or even know him. Can he catch the thieves, save the ranch, and win his son's love? Reissue.
Author | : Don Carpenter |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2010-06-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590173902 |
A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.
Author | : Elmer Kelton |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2008-02-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780765360557 |
When legislation is introduced to stop ranch workers from owning cattle, the cowboys rally together and strike.
Author | : Elmer Kelton |
Publisher | : TCU Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780875650487 |
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.
Author | : Elmer Kelton |
Publisher | : Forge Books |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2019-11-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250751446 |
With Hot Iron and The Time It Never Rained, this omnibus by legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton offers two complete novels of the American West at one low price Hot Iron In the early days of the Texas panhandle, starting a new life is hard, but keeping it is even harder. Espy Norwood is a troubleshooter already wrestling with a slew of problems when he lands a job on a ranch on the Texas plains—and more trouble finds him. Bitter landowners plot against him, determined cattle thieves sneak right under his nose, and his own son refuses to trust or even know him. Can he catch the thieves, save the ranch, and win his son’s love? The Time It Never Rained To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man’s greatest enemy is one he can’t control. With entire livelihoods pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush whole enterprises, to determine who stands and falls, and to rob workers and their families of food. To Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent, and cantankerous rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable “help” of federal aid programs, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again—if it ever will. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | : Elmer Kelton |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Droughts |
ISBN | : 9780613291064 |
To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man's biggest enemy is one he can't control. With their entire livelihood pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush their whole enterprise, to determine who stands and who fails, and to literally take food out of the mouths of the workers and their families. To Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent, and cantankerous rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe that he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable help of federal aid programs, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again -- if it ever rains again.
Author | : Peter Gadol |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2000-05-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312263546 |
While speeding in his car, California wine grower Jason Dark kills a boy. A car thief is arrested and police obtain a confession. Dark, a lawyer by profession, takes the man's defense for free, but will that be sufficient to salvage his conscience?