Wild West
eBook - ePub

Wild West

Stories of the Old West

  1. 362 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Wild West

Stories of the Old West

About this book

Compiled for the first time in book form, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton's short story collection, Wild West.
From rodeos to rustlers, from ranch life to the outlaw trail, Elmer Kelton's take on the human condition shows us life in Texas as it was back then: simpler, but harder, with danger always present. Readers will meet several unforgettable characters, including a young veteran who overcomes his PTSD to fight a fire ravaging his town, a sheriff who continues to chase bandits despite having lost his job, and a frontier housewife who refuses to let her home be held hostage by dangerous criminals—even when all seems lost. Equally fascinating are the rancher and his wife who protect their adopted son when his abusive biological father returns unexpectedly, and the two women whose argument over a prospective lover leads to a no-holds-barred rodeo barrel race.
As in all of Elmer Kelton's work, readers will, once again, encounter the timeless strength of the human heart and the human spirit when everything else has gone awry. Filled with adventure and imbued with a love of the time, the people, and the place, these stories take us from the earliest days of the Wild West well into the twentieth century, each one embodying a passion for life that's as wide as Texas sky.

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Information

Publisher
Forge Books
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781250161147
eBook ISBN
9781250161130

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. A Heck of a Promise
  5. Blind Canyon
  6. Bullets from the Past
  7. Climb the Big Rim
  8. Colt Size
  9. Land with No Law
  10. No Epitaph for Me
  11. One Son
  12. Poison
  13. Ride a Straight Road
  14. Deadly Homecoming
  15. Forge Books by Elmer Kelton
  16. About the Author
  17. Newsletter Sign-up
  18. Contents
  19. Copyright Acknowledgments
  20. Copyright