Elmer Kelton's The Unlikely Lawman
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9798885781664
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Unlikely Lawman didn't arrive until 2022, seventeen years after Six Bits a Day, credited to Elmer Kelton with Steve Kelton as continuation author; at 336 pages it is the longest book in the series.
Key facts about Elmer Kelton's The Unlikely Lawman
Elmer Kelton's The Unlikely Lawman is a novel by Elmer Kelton. Readers have had it since 2022. It runs to 336 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Elmer Kelton's The Unlikely Lawman. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9798885781664 to find the main one.
Elmer Kelton's The Unlikely Lawman is book 4 of 6 in the Hewey Calloway series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with The Good Old Boys (1978).
Additionally, Elmer Kelton writes Buckalew Family, Sons of Texas and Texas Rangers 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 Hewey Calloway
Elmer Kelton's The Unlikely Lawman is book 4 in the Hewey Calloway series. It follows Six Bits a Day. It is followed by Elmer Kelton's The Familiar Stranger. See the full Hewey Calloway reading order.
Hewey Calloway is a footloose, endearingly unambitious cowboy in early-1900s West Texas -- happier drifting from ranch to ranch and outfit to outfit than settling down, in gentle, comic tension with his more responsible younger brother Walter, who wants to marry and farm. Elmer Kelton wrote the first three books over nearly three decades (The Good Old Boys, 1978; The Smiling Country, 1998; Six Bits a Day, 2005), returning to the character intermittently across his career; The Good Old Boys was adapted into a 1995…
Editions
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