Time it Never Rained (Chisholm Trail): Volume 2 - Softcover

Kelton, Elmer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912646896 ISBN 13: 9780912646893

Publisher: Texas Christian University Press, 2006

Synopsis

To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man's biggest enemy is one he can't control. With their entire livelihood pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush their whole enterprise, to determine who stands and who falls, and to take food out of the mouths of the workers and their families. To Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent, and cantankerous rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe that he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable "help" of federal aid programs, Chalie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again - if it ever rains again.

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Review

"Elmer Kelton does not write Westerns. He writes fine novels set in the West. Here a reader meets flesh-and-blood people of an earlier time, in a story that will grab and hold you from the first to the last page."--Dee Brown, author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" on "The Time It Never Rained"

""The Time It Never Rained" is not just one of the best novels ever written by a Texan. It is one of the treasures of American literature..." -- John Erickson, author of "The Devil in Texas" and the "Hank the Cowdog" series

.,."one of the dozen or so best novels written by an American in this century." --- Jon Tuska, editor of "The American West in Fiction" on "The Time It Never Rained"

“Elmer Kelton does not write Westerns.  He writes fine novels set in the West. Here a reader meets flesh-and-blood people of an earlier time, in a story that will grab and hold you from the first to the last page.”—Dee Brown, author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" on "The Time It Never Rained"

""The Time It Never Rained" is not just one of the best novels ever written by a Texan. It is one of the treasures of American literature..." -- John Erickson, author of "The Devil in Texas" and the "Hank the Cowdog" series

."..one of the dozen or so best novels written by an American in this century." --- Jon Tuska, editor of "The American West in Fiction" on "The Time It Never Rained"

"Elmer Kelton does not write Westerns. He writes fine novels set in the West. Here a reader meets flesh-and-blood people of an earlier time, in a story that will grab and hold you from the first to the last page."--Dee Brown, author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" on "The Time It Never Rained"

""The Time It Never Rained" is not just one of the best novels ever written by a Texan. It is one of the treasures of American literature..." -- John Erickson, author of "The Devil in Texas" and the "Hank the Cowdog" series

..".one of the dozen or so best novels written by an American in this century." --- Jon Tuska, editor of "The American West in Fiction" on "The Time It Never Rained"

Elmer Kelton does not write Westerns. He writes fine novels set in the West. Here a reader meets flesh-and-blood people of an earlier time, in a story that will grab and hold you from the first to the last page. "Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee on The Time It Never Rained"

"The Time It Never Rained" is not just one of the best novels ever written by a Texan. It is one of the treasures of American literature... "John Erickson, author of The Devil in Texas and the "Hank the Cowdog" series"

...one of the dozen or so best novels written by an American in this century. "Jon Tuska, editor of The American West in Fiction on The Time It Never Rained""

-Elmer Kelton does not write Westerns. He writes fine novels set in the West. Here a reader meets flesh-and-blood people of an earlier time, in a story that will grab and hold you from the first to the last page.- --Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee on The Time It Never Rained

-The Time It Never Rained is not just one of the best novels ever written by a Texan. It is one of the treasures of American literature...- --John Erickson, author of The Devil in Texas and the -Hank the Cowdog- series

-...one of the dozen or so best novels written by an American in this century.- --Jon Tuska, editor of The American West in Fiction on The Time It Never Rained

"Elmer Kelton does not write Westerns. He writes fine novels set in the West. Here a reader meets flesh-and-blood people of an earlier time, in a story that will grab and hold you from the first to the last page." --Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee on The Time It Never Rained

"The Time It Never Rained is not just one of the best novels ever written by a Texan. It is one of the treasures of American literature..." --John Erickson, author of The Devil in Texas and the "Hank the Cowdog" series

..".one of the dozen or so best novels written by an American in this century." --Jon Tuska, editor of The American West in Fiction on The Time It Never Rained

About the Author

Elmer Kelton is the author of over thirty novels set in the West and the recipient of awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Western Writers of America, the Western Literature Association, and others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0912646896
• ISBN 13: 9780912646893
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 378