Law of the Land, Elmer Kelton
Law of the Land, Elmer Kelton
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Law of the Land
Stories of the Old West

Author: Elmer Kelton

Narrator: Traber Burns

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/23/2021

Synopsis

Here are sixteen stories, where good meets bad, and everything in between, from the legendary author of the West, Elmer Kelton.Law of the Land chronicles some of his most exciting and dangerous tales of the old west, collected together for the first time—including the exciting first publication of a never-before published Kelton story, “Biscuits for Bandit.”Included here are:“The Fugitive Book”“Jailbreak”“Biscuits for a Bandit”“There’s Always Another Chance”“Born to Be Hanged”“O’Malley’s Wife”“In the Line of Duty”“Relics”“North of the Big River”“The Ghost of Two Forks”“Lonesome Ride to Pecos”“Apache Patrol”“The Last Indian Fight in Kerr County”“Uncle Jeff and the Gunfighter”“Sellout”“Die by the Gun”

About Elmer Kelton

Elmer Kelton (1926–2009) was the seven-time Spur Award–winning author of more than forty novels, and the recipient of the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement. In addition to his novels, Kelton worked as an agricultural journalist for forty-two years and served in the infantry in World War II.

About Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abibliofob

Law of the Land by Elmer Kelton is a wonderful collection of short stories more or less concerning the law in older times. It's no wonder kelton has so many Spur awards, he is a master of the western tale. This is a quick read that I can really recommend for fans of westerns. I must thank @this_is_e......more

Goodreads review by Clare

I enjoyed the full, mixed, bag of Western short stories. These have been selected from the writer's long career and focus on lawmen and impromptu crime solvers. Sometimes on a frontier or on a cattle trail, there was no way to find a lawman when you needed one. You just had to hope the mean-looking......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 4.0 of 5 In the 1950's (and a few decades prior) it was pretty easy to find and read some short western fiction if that was your literature of choice. There were scores of western pulps. Today, western readers are generally limited to......more

Goodreads review by Denice

I love short stories and I love westerns so LAW OF THE LAND is a must read for me. Elmer Kelton is a skilled writer who brings the western eras to life with characters and communities that are true to the period. This book contains 16 short stories that are just the right length to read in between m......more

Goodreads review by Mary

Sometimes men taking the law into their own hands wasn't such a bad thing--especially when it involved biscuits rather than guns. All but one of these stories were really short and the last one was a novella rather than a novel. Love him--his people are so real--you can almost see them.......more

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