Texas Rangers · Book 5

Texas Vendetta

Published
1 January 2004
Pages
421
ISBN-13
9780786264292
Type
novel
Cover of Texas Vendetta

About this book

Texas Vendetta, the fifth Texas Rangers novel, appeared in 2004 at 421 pages, continuing Elmer Kelton's chronicle of Rusty Shannon and the widening cast -- including Andy Pickard, the boy Rusty rescued in the opening book -- as Reconstruction reshapes the frontier.

Key facts about Texas Vendetta

Elmer Kelton wrote Texas Vendetta, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2004. The book has 421 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780786264292 to find the main one.

Texas Vendetta is book 5 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 Vendetta is book 5 in the Texas Rangers series. It follows Ranger's Trail. It is followed by Jericho's Road. 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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