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Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer
by Kelton, Elmer
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0765354284
- ISBN 13
- 9780765354280
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Forge, 2010. Mass-market paperback. Like New. Sandhills Boy is Kelton's memoir, a funny and poignant story of "a freckle-faced country boy, green as a gourd, a sheep ready to be sheared," growing up in the wild, dry, sandhills of West Texas. The son of a working cowboy and ranch foreman, Elmer was expected to follow in father's footsteps but learned at an early age that he had no talents in the cowboy's trade. Buck Kelton called Elmer "Pop," said he was "slow as the seven-year itch," and reluctantly supported his son's decision to become a student at the University of Texas, and, eventually, a journalist and writer. Kelton's life in ranch and oil patch Texas during the Great Depression is told with warm nostalgic humor animated with stories of the cowboys and their wives and kids who gave the time and place its special flavor. He writes with great feeling of his service in WW2 in France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia, and the romantic circumstances in which his life changed in the village of Ebensee, Austria".
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010021160
- Title
- Sandhills Boy: The Winding Trail of a Texas Writer
- Author
- Kelton, Elmer
- Format/Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0765354284
- ISBN 13
- 9780765354280
- Publisher
- Forge
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- biography
- X weight
- 6 oz
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