WEST OF THE RIVER

" My dad wanted to make a cowboy out of me, but every time he turned around to see where I was, I was reading a book." Crane, Texa...

Elmer kelton wrote more than forty novels, all set in the American West.  One would think that more than one of them might have been filmed,...

Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) I haven’t read all of Elmer Kelton’s forty books, but I’ve read about thirty of them and I like some more than othe...

Back in 1973 Elmer Kelton published his most critically acclaimed novel, one that won both Spur and Western Heritage awards.  It is  Th...