Texas Rangers · Book 9
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.
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