A celebrated cowboy poet presents 20 of his best works, and a section of music for selected poems.

A collection of short frontier stories personally selected and introduced by the author. Contents: Dutchman's Flat; Keep Travelin' Rider ;Trail to Pie Town; Mistakes Can Kill You; Big Medicine; The Man from Battle Flat; West of the Tularosas; McQueen of the Tumbling K; The One for the Mohave Kid; The Lion Hunter and the Lady; A Gun for Kilkenny.

Follows Connor Creed who, promising to carry on his Uncle's legacy, struggles with identity issues when his estranged identical twin brother returns. Conner Creed knows exactly who he is: a hard-working rancher carrying on his uncle's legacy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. Maybe a small-town cowboy's life isn't his dream, but he owes the man who took him in as a kid. Until the twin brother he's been estranged from for years reenters his life. Conner...

Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.

"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 ... The fate of Texas is at hand, and Kelton will have readers eager to find out what happens."-

Poor, orphaned Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle, 19-year-old Chancy doesn't hesitate. He kills a cattle thief and finds himself stalked by a deadly gunman. When his past catches up with him in Cheyenne, Chancy makes his stand ... even if he has to fight alone.

A little cowboy and his father ride horses, round up cattle, mend a fence, practice roping, cook over a campfire, and sleep outdoors in their sleeping bags.

About modern cowboys, their hard life on the range, and modern aspects of ranch ownership. The setting for this virile novel is a Nevada cattle ranch covering one thousand miles of wilderness. The time is the present and the action takes place during the fall when the cattle must be rounded up. Several years of mismanagement have left the ranch and its livestock in bad shape, and the crew is faced with a monumental task in making the gather. Fences...

Presents a love story and an epic of the frontier, richly authentic that makes readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Set in the late-nineteenth century, this novel chronicles a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade.