Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was the seven-time Spur Award-winning author of more than forty novels, and the recipient of the Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement. In addition to his novels, Kelton worked as an agricultural journalist for forty-two years and served in the infantry in World War II.
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Recipient of Golden Saddleman, Lone Star Lifetime Achievement, and Western Heritage Awards, Elmer Kelton is WWA's 'Greatest Western Writer of All Time.' Honored by WWA as one of history's 25 Best Westerns and based on an actual 1883 Texas cowboys' strike,... SEE MORE