Shotgun, Elmer Kelton
Shotgun, Elmer Kelton
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Shotgun

Author: Elmer Kelton

Narrator: Jack Garrett

Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/26/2016

Categories: Fiction, Western


Synopsis

Rancher Blair Bishop of Two Forks, Texas, has too many enemies . . . and they are closing in on him. Macy Modock, whom Bishop sent to prison ten years ago, is out of the hoosegow. Modock is returning to Two Forks along with his sidekick, who is known to be a mean gunman. Also arrayed against Bishop is rival cowman Clarence Cass, who is running his animals on Bishop's land. Complicating matters, Cass's daughter, Jessie, and Bishop's son, Allan, are in love. Macy Modock, determined to get even with the man who sent him to prison, schemes with Cass to ruin Bishop. The black-hearted pair lay claim to untitled lands Bishop uses to graze his cattle - a plan that leads to a deadly confrontation in which two men will die.

About Elmer Kelton

Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was the award-winning author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, Other Men’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

Two old fashioned Western novels are in the book. In Shotgun an ex-convict is released from prison and sets out on a campaign of revenge attempting to steal two ranches and abuse a young woman along the way. In Six Bits A Day two brothers testify against a cattle thief and are threatened by him befo......more

Goodreads review by J.

I had only read one other American Western novel: Roy Chanslor's "The Ballad of Cat Ballou". I thought it might be fun to try a genre that I was not too familiar with. This book contains two short novels. The First story called Shotgun deals with a desperado who is gunning for a rancher who put him......more