Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer

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Synopsis
“[A] charming memoir of renowned western novelist Kelton’s early years in the saddle, at the desk and in the trench . . . a pleasure through and through.” —Kirkus ReviewsVoted the “Best Western writer of all time” by his peers, Elmer Kelton wrote fifty novels that form a testament and tribute to the American West.But who is that Texas gentleman with the white Stetson and rimless eyeglasses whose friendly face appears on so many book jackets?Sandhills Boy is Kelton’s memoir, a funny and poignant story of “a freckle-faced country boy, green as a gourd, a sheep ready to be sheared,” growing up in the wild, dry, sandhills of West Texas. The son of a working cowboy and ranch foreman, Elmer was expected to follow in his father’s footsteps but learned at an early age that he had no talents in the cowboy’s trade. Buck Kelton said Elmer was “slow as the seven-year itch,” and reluctantly supported his son’s decision to become a student at the University of Texas, and, eventually, a journalist and writer.Kelton’s life in ranch and oil patch Texas during the Great Depression is told with warm nostalgic humor animated with stories of the cowboys and their wives and kids who gave the time and place its special flavor. He writes with great feeling of his service in WW2 in France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, and the romantic circumstances in which his life changed in the village of Ebensee, Austria.“The most beloved western writer alive recounts his own story of growing up in Depression-era west Texas.” —Booklist
Copyright:
2007

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
304 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781429909266
Related ISBNs:
9780765315212
Publisher:
Tor Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
The Estate of Elmer Kelton
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Communication
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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