Texas Showdown [Dramatized Adaptation]

Elmer Kelton

Jun 2020 · Graphic Audio · Narrated by A Full Cast, Alyssa Wilmoth, Bobby Aselford, Christopher Graybill, David Coyne, Drew Kopas, Dylan Lynch, Gary Telles, Joe Brack, Joel David Santner, Johann Dettweiler, Ken Jackson, Kimberly Gilbert, Lily Beacon, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Patrick Bussink, Richard Rohan, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, and Tim Carlin

About this audiobook

Elmer Kelton writes of his beloved home country, West Texas, in these two stories of cowmen and cow country.
In "Pecos Crossing", two young cowboys, Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, have been cheated of six months' hard-earned pay by their rancher boss, Larramore and intend to get what is due to them.
In "Shotgun", Two Forks, Texas, rancher Blair Bishop must contend with a mean customer named Macy Modock, who Bishop sent to prison ten years past. Modock is out of the hoosegow and has returned to Two Forks determined to get even with the man who sent him up the river.

About the author

Elmer Kelton was born on April 29, 1926 in west Texas. He earned a degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and served in Europe during World War II. He worked as a livestock and farm writer for The San Angelo Standard-Times and later as an editor for the specialized publications Sheep and Goat Raiser magazine and Livestock Weekly while writing part-time. He wrote more than 60 books which earned him numerous awards and recognitions. He won the Spur award from Western Writers of America six times for his titles Buffalo Wagons, The Day the Cowboys Quit, The Time It Never Rained, Eye of the Hawk, Slaughter, and The Far Canyon. Four of his titles have won the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City. In addition, he received the Barbara McCombs/Lon Tinkle Award and the Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman Award from the Western Writers of America. His title The Good Old Boys was made into a television movie in 1995. Kelton also wrote under the pseudonyms Alex Hawk, Lee McElroy and Tom Early. He died on August 22, 2009 at the age of 83.