About this book
Published in 1996 at 304 pages, "The Pumpkin Rollers" belongs to Kelton's long run of standalone Westerns, written across a fifty-year career that ran from "Hot Iron" (1956) to "Many a River" (2008). It shares the series' grounding in agricultural and ranching hardship rather than the gunfighter tropes typical of the genre.
Key facts about The Pumpkin Rollers
Elmer Kelton wrote The Pumpkin Rollers, a book on our list. It has been out since 1996. The book has 304 pages.
We list 1 edition of this book. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780788794438 to find the main one.
Elmer Kelton has 52 books on our list. 20 of them belong to a series, while 32 stand alone. All 52 are out now. Other books by Elmer Kelton on file include Elmer Kelton's The Familiar Stranger (2024), Elmer Kelton's The Unlikely Lawman (2022), Texas Standoff (2010) and Other Men's Horses (2009).
Earlier, The Far Canyon came out in 1994. After it came Cloudy in the West in 1997. Since then, our list has added 18 more books by Elmer Kelton.
Elmer Kelton has 4 series on file, such as Buckalew Family, Hewey Calloway and Sons of Texas. 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.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780788794438