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 County, 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's memoir, Sandhills Boy, was published in 2007.

Kelton's novels have won seven Spur Awards and three Western Heritage Awards.

[edit] Partial Bibliography

• Barbed Wire (1957)
• 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)
• Ranger's law: A Lone Star saga (2006)

[edit] Awards

• Buffalo Wagons (1957 WWA Spur Award)
• The Day the Cowboys Quit (1971 WWA Spur Award)
• The Time It Never Rained (1973 WWA Spur Award and 1974 Western Heritage Award)
• The Good Old Boys (1979 Western Heritage Award)
• Eyes of the Hawk (1981 WWA Spur Award)
• The Man Who Rode Midnight (1988 Western Heritage Award)
• Slaughter (1992 WWA Spur Award)
• The Far Canyon (1994 WWA Spur Award)
• Way of the Coyote (2002 WWA Spur Award)

[edit] External links

• Elmer Kelton's website
• The Story of Elmer Kelton
• Inventory of Kelton's papers at the Texas Tech Library