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100 1 $aKelton, Elmer.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80044647
245 10 $aSandhills boy :$bthe winding trail of a Texas writer /$cElmer Kelton.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bForge Books,$c2007.
300 $a252 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
520 1 $a""I was a freckle-faced country boy, green as a gourd, a sheep ready to be sheared," Elmer Kelton writes of his boyhood in the sandhills of West Texas. The sons of Buck Kelton, a respected third-generation cowboy and ranch foreman, were expected to follow in Buck's footsteps, but Elmer strayed. Never much of a horseman, nor adept at the cowboy's trade, he went off to college and then into journalism and novel writing - a good career choice, as it turned out." "Sandhills Boy is a warm-hearted, romantic, funny, and nostalgic memoir. Elmer writes of his youth in the ranch and oil-patch country just east of the Pecos River; of his stint as an infantryman in France, Germany, and Czechoslovakia in WWII; and of his chance meeting in October 1945, in the Austrian Alps, with Anni, the young woman who was to become his wife." "Above all, Kelton vividly recalls his querencia, his homeland in Texas, parched sandhill country that was the perfect place for a Depression-era boy to grow up. There, remote from the hustle of the big city, Kelton was content with "small and transient pleasures like the smell of greasewood after a rain, the distant call of a calf for its mother, even the mournful wail of a coyote on a moonlit night.""--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aKelton, Elmer.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80044647
650 0 $aNovelists, American$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108453
651 0 $aTexas, West$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aWestern stories$xAuthorship.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113455
651 0 $aTexas, West$xIn literature.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2007006539-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2007006539-d.html
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