Texas Standoff
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 284
- ISBN-13
- 9780765325792
- Type
- novel
About this book
Texas Standoff, published in 2010 after Elmer Kelton's death in August 2009, closes out the Texas Rangers series as his final novel. At 284 pages, it follows Other Men's Horses and completes Rusty Shannon and Andy Pickard's story on the Texas frontier.
Key facts about Texas Standoff
Elmer Kelton wrote Texas Standoff, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2010. The book has 284 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780765325792 to find the main one.
Texas Standoff is book 9 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
Texas Standoff is book 9 in the Texas Rangers series. It follows 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 9780765325792