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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n11.19.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Story collection offers a treat for Elmer Kelton fans<\/h1>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Fans of the late Elmer Kelton are in for a treat.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wild West, <\/span>a new collection of eleven of Kelton\u2019s earliest short stories from the 1950s, has been published by Forge Books (366 pages, $27.99 hardcover). The stories, which gave the author his start as a fiction writer, originally appeared in some of the western \u201cpulp fiction\u201d magazines like Ranch Romances, Six-Gun Western<\/span>, and Triple Western.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI was fortunate to come along a few years before the end of the pulp-magazine era,\u201d Kelton wrote in his autobiography, Sandhills Boy.<\/span> \u201cThey were good training for beginning writers as well as bread and butter for many prolific professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The pulps began dying off in the late 1950s as TV replaced short stories as a source of entertainment. Kelton turned to writing novels and eventually wrote more than forty of them, while also working full-time as an agricultural journalist in San Angelo for forty-two years.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The stories in Wild West \u2014 ranging from eleven pages to more than fifty pages \u2014 have never been collected in one volume. Kelton, winner of seven Spur Awards, died in 2009 at age 83. In 1995 his fellow western authors voted him the best western writer of all time.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/span><\/span>Mavericks fans:<\/span> Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban writes the foreword to Tim Cato\u2019s<\/span> book 100 Things Maverick Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die <\/span>(Triumph Books, $14.95 paperback).<\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Listed Number 1 is \u201cDirk Nowitzki Means Everything,\u201d and Cuban certainly agrees, calling Nowitzki \u201cthe best player on the court and the coolest person off of it that I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Number 2 on Cato\u2019s list is \u201c2011 Was Different,\u201d the year Dallas won the NBA championship.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Number 3 is \u201cMark Cuban\u201d and Number 100 is \u201cAn Oral History of the 24 Hours After the 2011 Finals.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In between, Cato covers a lot of games and names, including Steve Nash, Rolando Blackman, Don Nelson, Rick Carlisle, Jason Kidd, Roy Tarpley, and the 20 three-pointers made in the 2011 \u201cMother\u2019s Day Massacre\u201d playoff win over the Lakers, 122\u201386.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s not just the good years that get ink in the book. Number 85 is \u201cThe 11-Win Season,\u201d when Dallas almost set a record for ineptitude in 1993, losing seventy-one games while winning just eleven. Cato rehashes all eleven wins that year.<\/p>\n
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Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 11.19.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Story collection offers a treat for Elmer Kelton fans Fans of the late Elmer Kelton…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/div>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>Fans of the late Elmer Kelton are in for a treat.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wild West, <\/span>a new collection of eleven of Kelton\u2019s earliest short stories from the 1950s, has been published by Forge Books (366 pages, $27.99 hardcover). The stories, which gave the author his start as a fiction writer, originally appeared in some of the western \u201cpulp fiction\u201d magazines like Ranch Romances, Six-Gun Western<\/span>, and Triple Western.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI was fortunate to come along a few years before the end of the pulp-magazine era,\u201d Kelton wrote in his autobiography, Sandhills Boy.<\/span> \u201cThey were good training for beginning writers as well as bread and butter for many prolific professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The pulps began dying off in the late 1950s as TV replaced short stories as a source of entertainment. Kelton turned to writing novels and eventually wrote more than forty of them, while also working full-time as an agricultural journalist in San Angelo for forty-two years.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The stories in Wild West \u2014 ranging from eleven pages to more than fifty pages \u2014 have never been collected in one volume. Kelton, winner of seven Spur Awards, died in 2009 at age 83. In 1995 his fellow western authors voted him the best western writer of all time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/span>Mavericks fans:<\/span> Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban writes the foreword to Tim Cato\u2019s<\/span> book 100 Things Maverick Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die <\/span>(Triumph Books, $14.95 paperback).<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Listed Number 1 is \u201cDirk Nowitzki Means Everything,\u201d and Cuban certainly agrees, calling Nowitzki \u201cthe best player on the court and the coolest person off of it that I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Number 2 on Cato\u2019s list is \u201c2011 Was Different,\u201d the year Dallas won the NBA championship.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Number 3 is \u201cMark Cuban\u201d and Number 100 is \u201cAn Oral History of the 24 Hours After the 2011 Finals.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In between, Cato covers a lot of games and names, including Steve Nash, Rolando Blackman, Don Nelson, Rick Carlisle, Jason Kidd, Roy Tarpley, and the 20 three-pointers made in the 2011 \u201cMother\u2019s Day Massacre\u201d playoff win over the Lakers, 122\u201386.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s not just the good years that get ink in the book. Number 85 is \u201cThe 11-Win Season,\u201d when Dallas almost set a record for ineptitude in 1993, losing seventy-one games while winning just eleven. Cato rehashes all eleven wins that year.<\/p>\n * * * * *<\/p>\n Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 11.19.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Story collection offers a treat for Elmer Kelton fans Fans of the late Elmer Kelton…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"