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Elmer Stephen Kelton
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The author Elmer Kelton was born at the Five Wells Ranch in Andrews County, Texas, earned a journalism degree at UT-Austin, worked as a farm and ranch editor for the San Angelo Standard-Times, as the editor for Sheep and Goat Raiser, and as an associate editor for Livestock Weekly. Voted the “greatest Western writer of all time” by the Western Writers of America in 1995, Kelton authored more than 40 novels and over 50 short stories. His books include the celebrated, The Time It Never Rained (1973), which tells the story of the severe Texas drought of the 1950s.
Location Notes
Mr. Kelton moved to the McElroy Ranch near Crane, Texas, at the age of three, when his father became the foreman there. His writing seems to have been influenced by that life and place. A sign might be fitting at the Crane County Extension Office, a facility that serves a ranching community perhaps more attuned to drought.
Bibliography
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Elmer Kelton. Stand Proud. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1984.
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Elmer Kelton. The Day the Cowboys Quit. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1971.
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Elmer Kelton. The Man Who Rode Midnight. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1987.
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Elmer Kelton. The Time It Never Rained. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1973.
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Elmer Kelton. The Wolf and the Buffalo. New York: Bantam Books, 1980.