Buffalo Wagons: For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 had been a poor hunt. A year ago, he felled sixty-two bufflo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican River herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak in awe of a last great herd to the south, but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory--none but Gage Jameson. -- Cloudy in the West: In the Texas backlands of 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances. After the death of a second man--a farmhand and friend--and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin, Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, a San Antonio prostitute, an outlaw, and a sheepman become Joey's unlikely partners as the boy is trailed by the murderous Meacham, who is in league with Joey's stepmother in a scheme to take over the Shipman farm.
Elmer Kelton
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"Buffalo Wagons copyright © 1956, 1984 by Elmer Stephen Kelton Estate ; Cloudy in the West copyright © 1997 by Elmer Stephen Kelton Estate"--t.p. verso
