Elmer Kelton: Essays and Memories

10 A Basic Bibliography of Books by Elmer Kelton

129 10 A Basic Bibliography of Books by Elmer Kelton Compiled by Felton Cochran of The Cactus Book Shop San Angelo, Texas NOVELS: 1956 *Hot Iron 1956 *Buffalo Wagons [Spur Award] 1957 *Barbed Wire 1959 *Shadow of a Star 1960 *Texas Rifles 1961 *Donovan 1962 *Bitter Trail 1963 *Horsehead Crossing 1965 *Massacre at Goliad 1966 *Llano River 1967 *After the Bugles 1969 *Captain’s Rangers 1969 *Shotgun Settlement (Written as Alex Hawk) 1969 *Hanging Judge 1971 *Bowie’s Mine 1971 The Day The Cowboys Quit [Spur Award] 1972 *Wagontongue 1973 The Time It Never Rained [Spur Award; Western Heritage Award] 1974 *Manhunters Elmer Kelton: Essays and Memories 130 1975 Joe Pepper (Written as Lee McElroy) 1976 Long Way to Texas (Written as Lee McElroy) 1978 The Good Old Boys [Western Heritage Award; also filmed for TNT Television] 1980 The Wolf and the Buffalo 1981 Eyes of the Hawk (Written as Lee McElroy) [Spur Award] 1984 Stand Proud 1985 Dark Thicket 1987 The Man Who Rode Midnight [Western Heritage Award] 1989 *Sons of Texas: Book I 1989 *Sons of Texas: The Raiders 1990 *Sons of Texas: The Rebels 1991 Honor at Daybreak 1992 Slaughter [Spur Award] 1994 The Far Canyon (Sequel to Slaughter) [Spur Award] 1996 The Pumpkin Rollers 1997 Cloudy in the West 1998 Smiling Country (Sequel to The Good Old Boys) 1999 The Buckskin Line 2001 Badger Boy 2001 The Way of the Coyote [Spur Award] 2002 Ranger’s Trail 2004 Texas Vendetta 2004 Jericho’s Road 2005 Six Bits a Day (Prequel to The Good Old Boys) 2008 Hard Trail to Follow 2008 Many a River 2009 Other Men’s Horses 2010 Texas Standoff (Due October 2010) (*First editions of these titles were paperback originals) Felton Cochran 131 NONFICTION: 1972 Looking Back West 1981 Frank C. McCarthy: The Old West 1986 Permian: A Continuing Saga 1992 Art of Frank C. McCarthy 1992 Art of Howard Terpning [Western Heritage Award] 1992 Living and Writing in West Texas 1993 Art of James Bama 1993 Elmer Kelton Country 1993 The Indian in Frontier News 1995 My Kind of Heroes 1995 Texas 1999 Texas Cattle Barons 2003 Christmas at the Ranch 2007 Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS: 1986 *The Big Brand 1986 There’s Always Another Chance ADDITIONAL NOTES: Lone Star Rising, Ranger’s Law, Texas Sunrise, Texas Showdown, and Brush Country are not included in this checklist because they are omnibus reprints of Kelton’s earlier novels. The first editions of Hot Iron and Buffalo Wagons were simultaneously published in cloth. These limited hardback bindings were primarily for distribution to libraries and are quite scarce today. Kelton wrote only the first three books in the Sons of Texas series under the publisher’s “house” name of Tom Early. (Book four was by Frank Roderus; book five, Will C. Knott; book six, James Reasoner.) Elmer Kelton: Essays and Memories 132 The nine books in Kelton’s Texas Ranger Series were published in this order: Buckskin Line Badger Boy The Way of the Coyote Ranger’s Trail Texas Vendetta Jericho’s Road Hard Trail To Follow Other Men’s Horses Texas Standoff Kelton wrote three books under the pseudonym “Lee McElroy.” He also wrote under two publisher’s “house names”: three books as “Tom Early;” and one book as “Alex Hawk.” Pecos Crossing (2008) is a reissue of Horsehead Crossing, originally published in 1963. Shotgun (2009) is a reissue of Shotgun Settlement, originally published in 1969 under the publisher’s house name, Alex Hawk. ...