Two Complete Novels of the American West: Hot Iron and The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton (Review)

By F. F. Mormanni

Jul 15, 2021

∙ Paid

New York: Forge, 2019
711 pp. $9.99 (paperback)

Texas novelist Elmer Kelton’s West is a vivid, authentic world—one in which farmers struggle to keep their land, ranchers work backbreaking hours to support their families, cowboys explore the depths of the wilderness, and people make difficult but admirable choices in the face of adversity. To Kelton, who g…

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