Texas Showdown: Two Texas Novels - Couverture souple

Kelton, Elmer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0765310201 ISBN 13 : 9780765310200

Editeur : Forge, 2012

Synopsis

Elmer Kelton writes of his beloved home country of West Texas in these two novels of cowmen and cow country.In Pecos Crossing, two young cowboys, Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, have been cheated of six months' hard-earned salary by their rancher boss Larramore and intend getting what is due to them. In Shotgun, Texas rancher Blair Bishop has to contend with a rival cowman who is turning his herd loose on Bishop's land, and with a mean customer named Macy Modock, who Bishop sent to prison ten years past. Modock is out of the hoosegow and has returned determined to get even with the man who sent him up the river.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was the award-winning author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, Other Men's Horses, Texas Standoff and Hard Trail to Follow. He grew up on a ranch near Crane, Texas, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas. His first novel, Hot Iron, was published in 1956. Among his awards were seven Spurs from Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. His novel The Good Old Boys was made into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones. In addition to his novels, Kelton worked as an agricultural journalist for 42 years. He served in the infantry in World War II. He died in 2009.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forge
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0765310201
• ISBN 13: 9780765310200
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible