Elmer Kelton's Stand Proud and Eyes of the Hawk are two novels of fierce men tested by the Old West, written by one of the most critically acclaimed writers of

On trial for murder, Frank Claymore, an old Texas rancher, recalls his experiences as a young man and the events that led to his trial.

A wounded Confederate soldier returns home to find the state of Texas bitterly divided by the Civil War.

The Texas Frontier, 1865 The Civil War is over and Texas is reluctantly yielding to the Union soldiers spreading across the state, even into the dangerous Coman

Donovan was supposed to be dead. The town of Dry Fork, southern Texas, had buried him years before when Uncle Joe Vickers had fired off both barrels of a shotgu