Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer - Hardcover

Praise for author Elmer Kelton:

"Elmer Kelton does not write Westerns. He 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 you 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

"Elmer Kelton is to Texas what Mark Twain was to the Mississippi River."
--Jory Sherman, author of The Barons of Texas

"Elmer Kelton is a Texas treasure."
--El Paso Herald-Post

"Kelton...expands on his reputation with a thoughtful, realistic portrayal of the West in which carefully drawn characters--not gunplay--drive the action. If there's an heir to the Louis L'Amour legacy, it's Kelton."
--Booklist

"Elmer Kelton, a wily old cloudburst, imbues his Westerns with ancient myths and modern motifs that transcend cowboys and cattle trails."
--Dallas Morning News

"One of the grand masters of Western literature. A preeminent story-teller, Kelton has been blessed with the ability to create a cast of fictional characters which bring history to life with such honesty and believability that the reader himself literally becomes part of the story. . . . It is Kelton's understanding of human weaknesses and strengths that makes his writings so captivating. . . ."
--The El Paso Scene

"Voted ‘the greatest Western writer of all time' by the Western Writers of America, Kelton creates characters more complex than L'Amour's."
--Kirkus Reviews

"San Angelo novelist Kelton knows intimately the work and ways of the West. That's why real cowboys love his writing."
--Southern Living

"You can never go wrong if you want to read a good story with realistic characters and you pick up a title by Elmer Kelton. . . . Kelton's characters jump off the page, they are so real."
--American Cowboy

"Elmer Kelton writes of early Texas with unerring authority. His knowledge of the state's history is complete, too―drawn from the lives of real people."
--Fort Worth Star-Telegram"Elmer Kelton's Westerns are not filled with larger than life gunfighters who can shoot spurs off a cowboy's boots at 100 yards. They are filled with the kind of characters that no doubt made up the West. . . . They are ordinary people with ordinary problems, but Kelton makes us care about them."
--Oklahoman