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Elmer Kelton and West Texas : A Literary Relationship Texas Writers Series ; No. 1
author
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Alter, Judy.
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0929398017
print isbn13
:
9780929398013
ebook isbn13
:
9780585270548
language
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English
subject
Kelton, Elmer, Authors, American--20th century--Biography, Western stories--History and criticism, Texas, West--Biography, Texas--In literature.
publication date
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1989
lcc
:
PS3561.E3975Z515 1989eb
ddc
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813/.54
subject
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Kelton, Elmer, Authors, American--20th century--Biography, Western stories--History and criticism, Texas, West--Biography, Texas--In literature.
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Elmer Kelton and West Texas:
A Literary Relationship
by Judy Alter
James W. Lee, General Editor with Kathryn B. McGuire Georgia Kemp Caraway
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Elmer Kelton and West Texas:
A Literary Relationship
by Judy Alter
Texas Writers Series
Number One
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TEXAS WRITERS SERIES NUMBER ONE
Copyright 1988 by Judy Alter All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First Edition, 1989
Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to the University of North Texas Press, P.O. Box 13856, Denton, Texas 76203-3856.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Alter, Judy, 1938 Elmer Kelton and West Texas: a literary relationship / by Judy Alter. p. cm. (Texas writers series; v. 1) Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-929398-01-7 1. Kelton, Elmer. 2. Texas in literature. 3. Authors, American20th centuryBiography. 4. TexasBiography. I. Title. II. Series. PS3563.A2932Z5151989 813'.54dcl9 88-39242 CIP
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Contents
Introduction
1
Home on the Ranch
5
An Apprenticeship in the Pulps
18
The Livestock Journalist
34
The Traditional Novels
41
The Major Novels
63
Kelton as Novelist
96
Conclusion
139
Bibliography
142
Index
154
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Introduction
The flap copy on the dust jacket of Elmer Kelton's 1985 novel, Stand Proud, speaks of the Texas novelist as Mr. Kelton and refers to his "distinguished oeuvre," both strangely formal words for a man whose writing is as earthy and common sense as his personality. But Elmer Kelton, son and grandson of working cowboys, does indeed have a distinguished body of workby 1987 it totaled twenty-seven novels, over fifty short stories published since the 1950s in magazines and anthologies, and two collections of short stories which, in effect, trace his career.
In the 1950s when Kelton began writing novels, the pulp magazines were a strong market for westerns, and ten percent of all novels published and eight out of ten television shows aired were westerns. Today, the traditional western is far less popular and not at all critically acclaimed. Commenting that western novelists are often considered provincial, a term critically applied to him more than once, Kelton has said, "A good novel of the West is just as
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valid as a novel set anywhere as long as it is honest and reflects reality. My real subject is the human condition, and this is universal." In a sense, that statement sums up his writing career.
Kelton's novels may be roughly divided into two categories: popular or traditional westerns and serious or literary works. The former, mostly early works, are shorter, less complex, and more inclined toward the traditional situations of the popular westernrustling, range life, and armed conflicts over law and order. Only six of Kelton's later works truly fall into the second categoryThe Day the Cowboys Quit, The Time It Never Rained, The Good Old Boys, The Wolf and the Buffalo, Stand Proud, and The Man Who Rode Midnight. These are novels which use the western setting as a vehicle for studying mankind rather than as an end in itself, and they are novels characterized thematically by the moral complexities wrought in men's lives by change and stylistically by a narrative voice that speaks clearly of West Texas and, to those who know him personally, echoes Kelton's own speaking tone. They are also the novels on which rest a literary reputation which has caused one critic to call him Texas's best-kept literary secret and another to praise one novel,
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