Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West Elmer Kelton
Forge Books
October 2021
On Sale: September 28, 2021
528 pages ISBN: 1250830478 EAN: 9781250830470 Kindle: B003E4CYR6 Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the award-winning western writer Elmer Kelton comes a Cloudy in the West
In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident" that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin--Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman, become Joey's unlikely partners as he is trailed by their murderous Meacham , in league with Joey's stepmother in their scheme to inherit the Shipman farm.