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Stubborn cowboys: outdoor Americans as chronicled by a man of the prairie.(Elmer Kelton)
Elmer Kelton was voted "Great Western Writer of All Time" by the Western Writers of America, a daunting title to work under, though he bears it modestly. There is, after all, that modifying adjective: Western.
Kelton, who turned 80 in April, has his academic champions, but he acknowledges that "the Western field is a literary ghetto. Critics don't read a Western unless the book is contemptuous of its subject matter. If you write out of love for your subject matter they'll dismiss you."
Elmer Kelton loves his subject matter. He was born to it, after all. And if the Western is a ghetto, it is a remarkably rich ghetto populated by the likes of Edward Abbey ...
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...the 2003 Bookend Award will be given to Shelby Hearon and Elmer Kelton. The annual award is given in ``recognition of a lifetime...with horses and cattle and cowboys.'' Kelton's father, Buck Kelton was foreman on the McElroy Ranch near Crane in West Texas...
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...appears to rely more on special effects than logical development. ``The Way of the Coyote'' by Elmer Kelton; Forge ($23.95) Elmer Kelton is a splendid writer. If you've somehow missed this master of the Western, try his new ``Way...
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