Many A River [Dramatized Adaptation]

Name: Many A River [Dramatized Adaptation]
Brand: Graphic Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Elmer Kelton
ISBN: 9781648799389

Author: Elmer Kelton

Narrator: A Full Cast, Dylan Lynch, Yasmin Tuazon, Bobby Aselford, Lily Beacon, David Jourdan, Colleen Delany, Michael John Casey, Joel David Santner, Thomas Penny, Terence Aselford, Ken Jackson, Nanette Savard, David Coyne, Ren Kasey, Brad Smith, Margie Tompros, Gary Telles, Richard Rohan, Mort Shelby, Eric Messner, Nora Achrati, Michael Glenn, Sherry Berg, Steven Carpenter, Scott McCormick

Unabridged: 5 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: GraphicAudio

Published: 06/03/2020

Categories: Fiction, Western

Synopsis

The Barfield family, Arkansas sharecroppers, are heading west with their sons Jeffrey and Todd. In far West Texas their camp is attacked by Comanche raiders and the elder Barfields are killed and scalped. The younger boy, Todd, is taken captive by the Indians. The older son, Jeffrey, manages to hide and is rescued by the militia men. Jeffrey is taken in by a home-steading family, while Todd is sold, for a rifle and gunpowder, to a Comanchero trader named January.

Both become caught up in the turbulence of the Civil War, which even in remote West Texas, the border country with New Mexico, pits Confederate sympathizers against Unionists. The brothers, separated by violence, are destined to be rejoined by violence. Will they meet as friends or deadly enemies?

About Elmer Kelton

Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was the award-winning author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, Other Menâ€™s Horses, Texas Standoff and Hard Trail to Follow. He grew up on a ranch near Crane, Texas, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas. His first novel, Hot Iron, was published in 1956. Among his awards were seven Spurs from Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. His novel The Good Old Boys was made into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones. In addition to his novels, Kelton worked as an agricultural journalist for 42 years. He served in the infantry in World War II. He died in 2009.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Russ on October 19, 2022

This has the best supporting character of any novel I’ve read this year. His name is January. He’s a selfish opportunist and altogether a lousy son of a bitch, but at the same time he’s the closest thing to a guardian or father figure to Todd. January has a way of snapping everybody who strays back......more

Goodreads review by Mark on July 08, 2014

In the words of Texas Governor Rick Perry, "Elmer Kelton is truly a Texas legend." Can't get enough of these stories. If you like to feel the grit in your teeth, the smell of cooking bacon and camp bread, saddle leather, greasy villains, strong women and frontier justice than Kelton's writings are fo......more

Goodreads review by Gordon on April 15, 2015

Best western ever.........more

Goodreads review by Bill on January 17, 2015

one of his best.......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on September 23, 2011

Excellent book about two brothers separated at an early by an Indian raid that killed their parents. Each thinks the other is dead. They live separate lives until the Civil War strangely brings them together. Kelton is a great author and this is highly recommended.......more