![]() ![]() ![]() 2 Together, these stories-reissued in 2019 in a single volume-demonstrate Kelton’s magnificent prose and are remarkable contributions to American literature. Forged from Elmer Keltons 1950s observations of drought-ravaged West Texas, this Spur Award winner-written by the WWAs greatest Western writer-tells the. The Time It Never Rained is a more serious Western and Kelton’s favorite, earning him a Spur Award for Best Western Novel in 1973. Since we ought to start with one of his classics, The Time It Never Rained will be the first piece that I will introduce to you. ![]() Hot Iron, Kelton’s first novel (published in 1956), is an adventure story reminiscent of popular Westerns. In his spare time, he wrote novels based on his experiences, and by the time of his death in 2009, he had completed sixty-two books and was named the “greatest Western author of all time” by the Western Writers of America. ![]() To Kelton, who grew up on a ranch in Andrews County and was an associate editor of Livestock Weekly from 1968 to 1990, this life was all too familiar. It was also the home of the late Elmer Kelton, renowned. Texas novelist Elmer Kelton’s West is a vivid, authentic world-one in which farmers struggle to keep their land, ranchers work backbreaking hours to support their families, cowboys explore the depths of the wilderness, and people make difficult but admirable choices in the face of adversity. Eisenhower visited in 1957 to inspect the effects of the droughtcoincidentally, just before it ended. ![]()
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