Elmer Kelton

For decades, Charlie Flagg has eked out a living by raising cattle and sheep on his Texas ranch. But as rainless years continue, Charlie finds himself under increasing pressure....

In Badger Boy, Kelton effortlessly sweeps listeners back to the post-Civil War Texas frontier, where ranger Rusty Shannon hopes to settle down as a respectable farmer....

In this final novel of the Texas Rangers, a young lawman finds his mettle put to the test while bringing justice to a remote settlement....

Jericho's Road follows the perilous trail of young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard....

Young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard vows to track down the bank robber he thinks killed his friend and mentor....

Hewey Calloway and his kid brother Walter head for West Texas - hoping to live their cowboy dream....

Chosen by his peers as the best Western writer of all time and honored with an unprecedented seven Spur Awards, Elmer Kelton is “one of the giants of the Western genre” ( Booklist).....

Cowboy Hewey Calloway loves to ride the open range like a solitary sailor on an endless sea....

Ranger's Trail takes listeners back to 1874 for a rousing tale of the legendary Texas Rangers....

The Buckskin Line tells of Texas' chaotic early years, when a ragtag group of irregular volunteers fought to defend the far edges of settlement from incursion by Indians and frontier outlaws. In time, they would become known as the Texas Rangers....

Frontier mobster Big Boy Daugherty warns any who'd stand in his way: Get out or die. One man will do neither....

In this novel, 18-year-old farmer Trey McLean aspires to be a cattle rancher....

When former cattle man Dundee wanders into the town of Titusville, he's broke, tired, and itching for a fight. Instead, he gets a job offer...from none other than the top man in town, John Titus....

Thirty years after the Battle of San Jacinto, Texans and Mexicans are still spilling blood over control of the Nueces Strip....

Rascally cowboy Hewey Calloway is heading north to Colorado on a horse drive for an old friend when he gets word that one of his hired hands is planning to rob him. After the plot is foiled, the fugitive horsehand is on the run and leaving bodies in his wake....

In the midst of a long-standing family feud, three Rangers must fight to keep order in the tenuous state of post-Civil War Texas....

Hewey Calloway may be pushing 45, but he can still rope and outride most things on four legs....

Nearly 70, Wes Hendricks has led a tough and colorful life as a cowboy and broncobuster, and all he asks now is that he be left alone on his poor, hardscrabble ranch in the West Texas hill country. Not a chance....

In the 1870s, buffalo hunters moved onto the High Plains of Texas. The Plains Indians watched hunters slaughter the animals that gave them shelter and clothing, food, and weapons....

Here are 16 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....