Forge Books
March 2008
On Sale: March 4, 2008
Featuring: Frank Claymore
320 pages ISBN: 0765360578 EAN: 9780765360571 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
“Pain resulting from other men's follies causes Stand
Proud's Frank Claymore to develop an iron will that heeds
no man's judgment except his own, nor any woman's. Some of
his decisions are wrong, and the price of pride proves
high.”— Elmer Kelton
The jarring strike of the clock in the
towering cupola drew Frank Claymore's unwilling eyes to the
two-story courthouse.
Frank Claymore is not easy to like—to
admire, maybe, but not to like. He is cantankerous,
stubborn, and intolerant—the very qualities that make him a
success as an open-range cattleman on the West Texas
frontier.
In one of his most memorable novels, acclaimed
Western writer Elmer Kelton follows Frank Claymore’s life
from the time of the Civil War to the dawn of the 20th
century—through marriage, births, deaths, and a creeping
change in the society that once hailed him as a hero, but
which later has him condemned and tried for murder.