Texas Rangers · Book 3

The Way of the Coyote

by Elmer Kelton

Published
1 January 2001
Pages
272
ISBN-13
9780812577518
Type
novel

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About this book

The Way of the Coyote, published in 2001 at 272 pages, is the third Texas Rangers novel, continuing Rusty Shannon's story as the frontier around him shifts from Comanche raids toward the range wars and rustling of the Reconstruction era.

Its place in Texas Rangers

The Way of the Coyote is book 3 in the Texas Rangers series. It follows Badger Boy. It is followed by Ranger's Trail. 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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