This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in these novels are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
BRUSH COUNTRY: TWO TEXAS NOVELS
This is an omnibus edition comprising the novels Barbed Wire, copyright © 1957 by Elmer Kelton; renewal copyright © 1985 by Elmer Kelton; and Llano River, copyright © 1966, 1991 by Elmer Kelton; renewal copyright © 1994 by Elmer Kelton.
Barbed Wire was previously published in 1957 by Ballantine Books.
Llano River was previously published in 1966 by Bantam Books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kelton, Elmer.
[Llano River]
Brush country : two Texas novels / Elmer Kelton.—1st ed.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
Contents: Llano River—Barbed wire.
ISBN 13: 978-0-765-31019-4
ISBN 10: 0-765-31019-8
1. Texas Hill Country (Tex.)—Fiction. 2. Texas—Fiction. I. Kelton, Elmer. Barbed wire. II. Title.
PS3561.E3975L58 2006
2005053665
First Edition: February 2006
Printed in the United States of America
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