Hard Trail to Follow
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 287
- ISBN-13
- 9780765315229
- Type
- novel
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.
Key facts about Hard Trail to Follow
Elmer Kelton wrote Hard Trail to Follow, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2008. The book has 287 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780765315229 to find the main one.
Hard Trail to Follow is book 7 of 9 in the Texas Rangers series. The series has 9 published books. However, the series starts with The Buckskin Line (1999).
Additionally, Elmer Kelton writes Buckalew Family, Hewey Calloway and Sons of Texas as separate series. Those series sit on our western shelf. Meanwhile, Elmer Kelton's The Blessing is the latest published Elmer Kelton book on file, from 2025.
About Elmer Kelton
Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was a Texas-born author widely regarded as one of the finest writers the Western genre produced, distinguished for trading gunfighter mythology for the harder, more specific realities of ranching and farming life. See every Elmer Kelton book in order.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780765315229