Two complete novels from the legendary Western author Elmer Kelton in
one low-priced edition: Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West
Buffalo Wagons
For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago he
felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River
herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it.
In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak in awe of a last great heard 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 in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father
dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with
his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the
death of a black 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, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman
become Joey's unlikely partners as he is trailed by their murderous
Meacham, in league with Joey's stepmother in their scheme to inherit the
Shipman farm.