Elmer Kelton's Stand Proud and Eyes of the Hawk are two novels of
fierce men tested by the Old West, written by one of the most critically
acclaimed writers of the American west and offered at one low price.
Stand Proud
Frank Claymore is cantankerous, stubborn, and intolerant--just the
qualities that make him a success as an open-range cattle rancher on the
West Texas frontier. Stand Proud follows Claymore from the time of the
Civil War to the dawn of the twentieth century--through marriage,
births, deaths, and a creeping change in the society that once hailed
him as a hero, and which later has him condemned as a despoiler and
tried for murder.
Eyes of the Hawk
Thomas Canfield descends from a line of Texas's earliest settlers. A
proud man with a fierce-eyes stare, he inspires the Mexicans of
Stonehill, Texas to call him el gavilan--"the hawk." When Branch
Isom--an insolent, dangerous newcomer--seeks to build his fortune at
Canfeild's expense, an all-out feud ensues, hurtling the town toward a
day of reckoning that will shake the entire town to its very roots.