

Shotgun
Author: Elmer Kelton
Narrator: Jack Garrett
Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 08/26/2016
Author: Elmer Kelton
Narrator: Jack Garrett
Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 08/26/2016
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.
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
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