Once the Civil War is over, the fabled Texas Rangers don't have a lot to do. Andy Pickard is rescued from the Comanches by a former Ranger, Rusty Shannon, who tries to make a new life for the boy and for himself. Then Rusty's old enem...

In Massacre at Goliad, tensions mount between Mexican authorities and American newcomers. Revolution is in the air, something Thomas Buckalew welcomes but his brother Joshua fears, since Joshua is in love with a Mexican girl. The stor...

Lieutenant David Buckalew and his men had left Texas on a march westward to claim the entire Southwest for the Confederacy. But defeat after humiliating defeat at the hands of the Union army has stranded Buckalew and nineteen battle-w...

A former Comanche captive known as Badger Boy, Andy Pickard, a young Texas Ranger, joins forces with Farley Brackett, a Confederate veteran turned ranger, to deliver prisoner Jayce Landon to a neighboring county to stand trial for the...

A new deputy sheriff who has yet to prove himself ready to follow in his father's footsteps as the law in Coolridge County, Jim-Bob McClain suddenly finds himself forced to confront a desperate gang of murderous outlaws and members of...

After the murder of his wife Josie, Texas Ranger Rusty Shannon heads out on the revenge trail, but he soon finds he is tracking the wrong man, in a novel chronicling the exploits and adventures of the Texas Rangers in the Old West. Re...

A prequel to the series that includes The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country follows the younger adventures of cowboy Hewey Calloway, who travels to west Texas with his beloved brother, Walter, to find work, struggles to prevent hi...

Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land hungry thugs.Monahan...

A master of Western fiction presents two complete novels in one volume, including “Bitter Trail,” in which a tough teamster must deal with the betrayal of his best friend as the Civil War rages through the South. Reissue.

divOne of America's greatest Western storytellers, Elmer Kelton has been voted the greatest Western writers of all time by the Western Writers of America.i Dark Thicket is one of his many classic tales of the history of his home state...

Bandits, outlaws, romance, and adventure abound in Hard Ride, the second-ever collection of tales of the American West from renowned, seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton.Each of Elmer Kelton's superb stories of the West ...

Former Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, called 'Badger Boy' when he lived with Comanches as a child, is following the plow on West Texas land until he learns that his friend, Sheriff Tom Blessing, has been killed during a jailbreak. The esc...

With Hot Iron and The Time It Never Rained, this omnibus by legendary Western writer Elmer Kelton offers two complete novels of the American West at one low price Hot IronIn the early days of the Texas panhandle, starting a new life i...

Two classic wild westerns in one volume from seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Kelton.Shadow of a StarDeputy Sheriff Jim-Bob McClain isn't sure he's ready to follow in his father's footsteps as the law in Coolridge County. In...

Texas RiflesThe new Confederacy had too much on its hands to send troops to the Texas frontier to hold back the Indians, and authorized Texas to raise its own troops. Many men joined the Texas Mounted Rifles. Some were seeking advent...

Newly married and dreaming of settling down on his ranch on the Guadalupe River, Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is dispatched to central Texas to investigate a series of murders and cattle thefts. Pickard and his new partner, Logan Daggett...

A good-natured look at West Texas country life in the early part of the 20th century. Hewey Calloway dreams of being a footloose cowboy, endlessly wandering the open range. But that open range is slowly disappearing, and Hewey's simpl...

The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country pairs two wonderful novels by one of the most honored of all western writers, Elmer KeltonThe Good Old BoysHewey Calloway has a problem. He wants to be a footloose cowboy, endlessly wandering ...

Ten years have passed since Michael Lewis made his first venture into Texas, now a province of Mexico. Together with a small number of Americans pioneering on the Brazos and Colorado Rivers, Michael and his brother Andrew each have a ...

“The Smiling Country is about a footloose puncher who finds out the hard way that cowboys don't remain young forever and that the inevitable wear and tear of a rugged life forces changes and compromises on the willing and unwill...