Elmer Kelton

"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 ... The fate of Texas is at hand, and Kelton will have readers eager to find out what happens."-

For Confederate veteran Jeff Layne, the days of slaughter are over. He has fought the Comanches at Adobe Walls and hunted buffalo on the Staked Plains. Now he wants nothing more than to settle down to the quiet life of a Texas rancher.

Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his West Texas home of 1906, the land and the way of life that he loves are changing too quickly for his taste. Hewey dreams of freedom - he wants only to be a footloose horseback cowboy, endlessly wandering the open range. But the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing: land is being parceled out, and barbed-wire fences are springing up all over. As if that weren't enough, cars, and other machines are...

"In the early days of the Texas panhandle, starting a new life is hard-but keeping it is even harder. Espy Norwood is a troubleshooter who's got troubles of his own-and more troubles find him when he lands a job on a ranch on the Texas plains. Bitter landowners plot against him, determined cattle thieves sneak right under his nose, and his own son refuses to trust or even know him. Can he catch the thieves, save the ranch, and win his son's love?"--Jacket....

After learning of the defeat at the Alamo, the Buckalew brothers and the rest of the garrison at Goliad are determined to defeat Santa Anna.

Relocating to western Texas with their sharecropper parents in the mid-nineteenth century, Jeffrey and Todd Barfield are separated by a Comanche attack that leaves their parents dead, and are reunited years later on opposing sides in the Civil War.

It is the mid 1830s and a growing flow of American pioneers into Mexican Texas has sown the seeds of revolution. In the midst of the turmoil are the Lewis brothers - Andrew, Michael, and James - scions of Mordecai Lewis, who crossed the Sabine River into Texas a decade past. Now the news along the Texas frontier is of a young general, a self-styled "Napoleon of the West, " named Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who wants to stamp out any gringo talk of...