Elmer Kelton

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Elmer Kelton (born April 29, 1926) is an American author, known for his Westerns. He was born in Andrews, Texas.

He graduated from the University of Texas in 1948. Kelton worked as the farm and ranch editor of the San Angelo Standard-Times from 1948 to 1963. He served as the associate editor of Livestock Weekly from 1968 to 1990.

Kelton has won the Western Writers of America best Western novel award six times. The first of his novels to win was Buffalo Wagons.

[edit] Partial Bibliography

  • Buffalo Wagons (1957)
  • Dovovan (1961)
  • The Day the Cowboys Quit (1971)
  • Wagontongue (1972)
  • The Time it Never Rained (1974)
  • The Wolf and the Buffalo (1980)
  • Dark Thicket (1985)
  • Honor at Daybreak (1991)
  • Slaughter (1992)
  • The Far Canyon (1994)
  • The Pumpkin Rollers (1996)
  • Cloudy in the West (1997)
  • Way of the Coyote (2001)
  • Jericho's Road (2004)
  • Six Bits a Day (2005)

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