“The greatest Western writer of all time.”
—Western Writers of America, Inc.
“No one writes better than Elmer Kelton, who is probably America’s foremost novelist, and certainly one of this nation’s treasures.”
—Richard S. Wheeler, award-winning author of Skye’s West
“Elmer Kelton writes fine novels set in the West. Here a reader meets flesh-and-blood people of an earlier time in a story that will grab and hold you from the first to the last page.”
—Dee Brown, author of the New York Times bestseller Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, on The Pumpkin Rollers
“Elmer Kelton is a Texas treasure, as important for his state as Willa Cather is for Nebraska and Badger Clark for South Dakota. Kelton truly deserves to be made one of the immortals of literature.”
—El Paso Herald-Post
“Western storyteller Kelton returns for his fortieth-plus novel, a sequel to 1978’s The Good Old Boys that again features hang-loose Hewey Calloway, circa 1910, as his lovable old ‘Smiling Country’ of West Texas fades into the automobile age.… Old-timey dialogue, newly minted, rhetorical stretchers, and whopping good humor out of Twain.”
—Kirkus Reviews on The Smiling Country
“A clever Western.… It is easy to see why Kelton, who wrote his first Western forty years ago, has won six Spur Awards. His characters and narrative are colorful and well-defined, his plotting is taut and suspenseful—and Joey [Shipman] is one of his best creations yet.”
—Publishers Weekly on Cloudy in the West
“A coming-of-age tale, Western style, and veteran genre-master Kelton handles the theme well. The key characters are carefully and believably rendered.… Fine reading.”
—Booklist on The Pumpkin Rollers