Captain's Rangers (G K Hall Large Print Western Series) - Hardcover

Kelton, Elmer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783894252 ISBN 13: 9780783894256

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 2001

Synopsis

In 1875, nearly forty years after the Mexican War, Mexicans and Texans are still spilling blood over ownership of the Nueces Strip - a hot, dry, stretch of coastal prairie that bushwackers and horse thieves have turned into a lawless hell. Captain L. H. McNelly, a complex and determined Confederate veteran, is brought into the Nueces Strip for one purposes: to keep the peace. His measures are harsh and controversial - but McNelly wasn't sent in to be popular. In this boulerpot of killing and racial hatred, can any man bring any lasting peace?

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Review

" Elmer Kelton is a Texas treasure, as important for his state as Willa Cather is for Nebraska and Badger Clark for South Dakota. Kelton truly deserve to be made one of the immortals of literature."--"El Paso Herald-Post"
"One of the best of a new breed of Western writers who have driven the genre into new territory."--"The New York Times"
“Elmer Kelton is a Texas treasure, as important for his state as Willa Cather is for Nebraska and Badger Clark for South Dakota. Kelton truly deserve to be made one of the immortals of literature."--"El Paso Herald-Post"
"One of the best of a new breed of Western writers who have driven the genre into new territory."--"The New York Times"
"Elmer Kelton is a Texas treasure, as important for his state as Willa Cather is for Nebraska and Badger Clark for South Dakota. Kelton truly deserve to be made one of the immortals of literature."--"El Paso Herald-Post"

"One of the best of a new breed of Western writers who have driven the genre into new territory."--"The New York Times"

Elmer Kelton is a Texas treasure, as important for his state as Willa Cather is for Nebraska and Badger Clark for South Dakota. Kelton truly deserve to be made one of the immortals of literature. "El Paso Herald-Post"

One of the best of a new breed of Western writers who have driven the genre into new territory. "The New York Times""

-Elmer Kelton is a Texas treasure, as important for his state as Willa Cather is for Nebraska and Badger Clark for South Dakota. Kelton truly deserve to be made one of the immortals of literature.- --El Paso Herald-Post

-One of the best of a new breed of Western writers who have driven the genre into new territory.- --The New York Times

"Elmer Kelton is a Texas treasure, as important for his state as Willa Cather is for Nebraska and Badger Clark for South Dakota. Kelton truly deserve to be made one of the immortals of literature." --El Paso Herald-Post

"One of the best of a new breed of Western writers who have driven the genre into new territory." --The New York Times

About the Author

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 have been 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, and served in the infantry in World War II. He died in 2009.

Edition details

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0783894252
• ISBN 13: 9780783894256
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 269