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Praise for author Elmer Kelton:
"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 you and hold you from the first to the last page."
--Dee Brown, author of the New York Times bestseller Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
"Elmer Kelton is to Texas what Mark Twain was to the Mississippi River."
--Jory Sherman, author of The Barons of Texas
"Elmer Kelton is a Texas treasure."
--El Paso Herald-Post
"Kelton...expands on his reputation with a thoughtful, realistic portrayal of the West in which carefully drawn characters--not gunplay--drive the action. If there's an heir to the Louis L'Amour legacy, it's Kelton."
--Booklist
"Elmer Kelton, a wily old cloudburst, imbues his Westerns with ancient myths and modern motifs that transcend cowboys and cattle trails."
--Dallas Morning News
"One of the grand masters of Western literature. A preeminent story-teller, Kelton has been blessed with the ability to create a cast of fictional characters which bring history to life with such honesty and believability that the reader himself literally becomes part of the story. . . . It is Kelton's understanding of human weaknesses and strengths that makes his writings so captivating. . . ."
--The El Paso Scene
"Voted ‘the greatest Western writer of all time' by the Western Writers of America, Kelton creates characters more complex than L'Amour's."
--Kirkus Reviews
"San Angelo novelist Kelton knows intimately the work and ways of the West. That's why real cowboys love his writing."
--Southern Living
"You can never go wrong if you want to read a good story with realistic characters and you pick up a title by Elmer Kelton. . . . Kelton's characters jump off the page, they are so real."
--American Cowboy
"Elmer Kelton writes of early Texas with unerring authority. His knowledge of the state's history is complete, too―drawn from the lives of real people."
--Fort Worth Star-Telegram"Elmer Kelton's Westerns are not filled with larger than life gunfighters who can shoot spurs off a cowboy's boots at 100 yards. They are filled with the kind of characters that no doubt made up the West. . . . They are ordinary people with ordinary problems, but Kelton makes us care about them."
--Oklahoman
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. "One thing is certain," a reviewer in True West Magazine recently said, "as long as there are writers as skillful as Elmer Kelton, Western literature will never die."Few would disagree with the assessment of the man whose peers voted the "Best Western writer of all time" and whose 50 novels form a testament and tribute to the American West. But who is that Texas gentleman with the white Stetson and rimless eyeglasses whose friendly face appears on so many book jackets? Sandhills Boy is Kelton's memoir, a funny and poignant story of "a freckle-faced country boy, green as a gourd, a sheep ready to be sheared," growing up in the wild, dry, sandhills of West Texas. The son of a working cowboy and ranch foreman, Elmer was expected to follow in father's footsteps but learned at an early age that he had no talents in the cowboy's trade. Buck Kelton called Elmer "Pop," said he was "slow as the seven-year itch," and reluctantly supported his son's decision to become a student at the University of Texas, and, eventually, a journalist and writer. Kelton's life in ranch and oil patch Texas during the Great Depression is told with warm nostalgic humor animated with stories of the cowboys and their wives and kids who gave the time and place its special flavor. He writes with great feeling of his service in WW2 in France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, and the romantic circumstances in which his life changed in the village of Ebensee, Austria. Seller Inventory # DADAX0765315211