Texas Rangers · Book 7

Hard Trail to Follow

by Elmer Kelton

Published
1 January 2008
Pages
287
ISBN-13
9780765315229
Type
novel

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About this book

Hard Trail to Follow, the seventh Texas Rangers book, appeared in 2008 at 287 pages, coming several years after Jericho's Road as Elmer Kelton continued the series into its later installments not long before his death in 2009.

Its place in Texas Rangers

Hard Trail to Follow is book 7 in the Texas Rangers series. It follows Jericho's Road. It is followed by Other Men's Horses. See the full Texas Rangers reading order.

Elmer Kelton's last extended body of work follows Rusty Shannon, orphaned as a child in a Comanche raid and raised by a Texas Ranger veteran, as he grows into a Ranger himself in the turbulent decades around the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Texas frontier. Across nine novels published between 1999 and 2010, the series widens from Rusty's own story to follow the next generation, including Andy Pickard, a boy Rusty rescues from a Comanche war party in the opening book, as the frontier itself changes around…

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