Audiobooks by Elmer Kelton

Elmer Kelton is hailed as the greatest Western author of all time by the Western Writers of America, has earned six Spur Awards during his impressive career. In Badger Boy, Kelton effortlessly sweeps listeners back to the post-Civil War Texas frontier, where ranger Rusty Shannon hopes to settle down as a respectable farmer. But trouble brews when Rusty captures Badger Boy, a white child raised by the Comanches who murdered his parents.

Elmer Kelton (Author), Jonathan Davis (Narrator)

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Badger Boy [Dramatized Adaptation]

The Civil War is over and Confederate Texas is reluctantly yielding to Union military peace-keepers and regulations imposed by Washington. David 'Rusty' Shannon is the member of a 'ranging company' attempting to protect Texas settlers from Comanche depredations. He learns that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his farm on the Colorado River, and discovers that the land around his home is filled with hostiles-Indians, Confederates, and conscription-dodging renegades. Rusty's youth as a captive of the Comanches returns to haunt him when, in pursuit of Indian raiders, he finds the wounded Badger Boy, a white child who was orphaned and kidnapped by a Comanche warrior, and raised as an Indian for 5 years. Rusty takes on the task of nursing the boy back to health and trying to reunite him with relatives, if any have survived.

Elmer Kelton (Author), A Full Cast, Andy Clemence, Bobby Aselford, Casie Platt, Catherine Aselford, Christopher Graybill, David Coyne, Drew Kopas, Dylan Lynch, Eric Messner, James Konicek, James Lewis, Joe Brack, Johann Dettweiler, Jonathan Watkins, Ken Jackson, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Scott Mccormick, Terence Aselford, Thomas Anthony Penny, Tim Carlin, Tim Getman, Tony Nam (Narrator)

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Barbed Wire

Recipient of seven Spur Awards, Elmer Kelton "just keeps getting better and better" (Tulsa World). When a ruthless cattle baron and his men destroy Doug Monahan's property, his old friend and mentor is gunned down. Pistol whipped and now flat broke, Monahan finds refuge on the sprawling homestead of Noah Wheeler and his virtuous daughter. But Monahan refuses to quit. "If there's an heir to the Louis L'Amour legacy, it's Kelton."-Booklist

Elmer Kelton (Author), Ken Marks (Narrator)

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Bitter Trail

In Bitter Trail, Kelton tells the story of a tough teamster named Frio Wheeler whose wagons haul cotton from Texas to Mexico. Sounds like a peaceable enterprise? The problem is that the Civil War is raging throughout the South and Wheeler's cotton is to be sold for gold--gold used to buy guns and ammunition for the Confederate army. And, added to his balky mules, the broiling heat, and killing drought of the Mexican dessert, Wheeler has even more serious matters to contend with: His wagons are attacked, his cotton bales are burned, he is captured and tortured by bandidos in league with Union sympathizers, and he is betrayed by his best friend--his former partner and brother of the woman he loves!

Elmer Kelton (Author), Jason Culp (Narrator)

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Bowie's Mine

Daniel Provost is the son of a farmer. Living up to his father's high standards for the farm is very hard work, but his life is basically comfortable and a loving woman is waiting to become his wife. When a well-traveled stranger, bearing a story of Jim Bowie's legendary silver mine, appears at the farm, Daniel might just throw away everything for the chance at adventure he thought had passed him by.

Elmer Kelton (Author), Paul Woodson (Narrator)

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Bowie's Mine [Dramatized Adaptation]

Elmer Kelton (Author), A Full Cast, Amanda Forstrom, Andy Clemence, Bobby Aselford, Bradley Smith, Catherine Aselford, Christopher Walker, Colleen Delany, David Jourdan, Dylan Lynch, Eric Messner, Gary Telles, J.W. Rone, Kimberly Gilbert, Michael Glenn, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Nathanial Perry, Nora Achrati, Patrick Bussink, Richard Rohan, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Scott Mccormick, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Yazmin Tuazon (Narrator)

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Brush Country (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: Barbed Wire

Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers and land hungry thugs. Monahan's fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range baron of the huge R Cross spread. With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann, assigned to the violent work, Rinehart wages a barbed wire war against Doug Monahan. And neither side takes prisoners!

Elmer Kelton (Author), A Full Cast, Casie Platt, Christopher Graybill, Christopher Scheeren, Daniel Stevens, David Coyne, Dylan Lynch, Elizabeth Jernigan, Eric Messner, James Keegan, James Lewis, Jeff Allin, Joe Brack, Joseph Thornhill, Ken Jackson, Margie Tompros, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Tim Carlin (Narrator)

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Brush Country (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]: Llano River

When former cattle man Dundee wanders into the town of Titusville, he's broke, tired and itching for a fight. Instead, he gets a job offer...from none other than the top man in town, John Titus. Titus recruits Dundee to find out who's rustling his extensive herd of cattle. But for Titus, it isn't enough that Dundee find the missing cattle. He wants to place the blame on a specific person...Blue Roan Hardesty, a one-time friend turned sworn enemy of the powerful Titus clan. All Titus needs is hard proof and Dundee is just the man to get it. What Dundee uncovers creates a shooting war out of a simmering feud...with him in the middle.

Elmer Kelton (Author), A Full Cast, Casie Platt, Colleen Delany, David Coyne, Drew Kopas, Dylan Lynch, Eric Messner, Joe Brack, Ken Jackson, Michael Glenn, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Scott Mccormick, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Tim Carlin, Yasmin Tuazon (Narrator)

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Brush Country [Dramatized Adaptation]: Barbed Wire and Llano River

'Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers and land hungry thugs. Monahan's fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range baron of the huge R Cross spread. With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann, assigned to the violent work, Rinehart wages a barbed wire war against Doug Monahan. And neither side takes prisoners!'

Elmer Kelton (Author), Casie Platt, Christopher Graybill, Christopher Scheeren, Daniel Stevens, David Coyne, Dylan Lynch, Elizabeth Jernigan, Eric Messner, James Keegan, James Lewis, Jeff Allin, Joe Brack, Joseph Thornhill, Ken Jackson, Margie Tompros, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Tim Carlin (Narrator)

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Buffalo Wagons

Elmer Kelton's westerns are filled with authentic details and unforgettable characters. With works including The Smiling Country and Texas Rifles, he has won six Golden Spur Awards and attracted a world-wide audience of fans. By 1873, the great buffalo herds have been all but wiped out, and the hide hunters are looking for other work. So when Gage Jameson hears of one remaining herd, he sees a final opportunity to make a huge profit. But to find the buffalo, he will have to take his line of wagons deep into Comanche territory, where death lurks behind every rock. Kelton's feel for the last days of the American West is evident in each chapter of Buffalo Wagons. As Jameson and his crew journey further into danger, the growing tension is dramatically voiced by Audie Awarda-winning narrator George Guidall.

Elmer Kelton (Author), George Guidall (Narrator)

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Buffalo Wagons [Dramatized Adaptation]

For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it.In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak is awe of a last great heard to the south--but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson....

Elmer Kelton (Author), A Full Cast, Christopher Graybill, Danny Gavigan, David Coyne, Dylan Lynch, Jeff Allin, Lily Beacon, Mort Shelby, Nora Achrati, Richard Rohan, Scott Mccormick, Terence Aselford, Tim Pabon (Narrator)

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Captain's Rangers

This entry in Elmer Kelton's Tales of Texas series whisks us away to witness a violent 1875 conflict. Thirty years after the Battle of San Jacinto, Texans and Mexicans are still spilling blood over control of the Nueces Strip. And Horse thieves and bushwhackers transform this hot, dry stretch between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers into a lawless inferno. Despite long odds, Captain McNelly and his small band of Texas Rangers strive to bring lasting peace to this swirling vortex of murder and racial hatred.

Elmer Kelton (Author), Kevin Orton (Narrator)

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