Includes bibliographical references.

Two careers in one / Judy Alter -- My friend Elmer Kelton / Felton Cochran -- A eulogy / The Reverend Ricky Burk, senior pastor, First United Methodist Church of San Angelo -- Journalism's influence on Elmer Kelton's fiction / Steve Kelton -- Hang and rattle : change and endurance in The time it never rained / Ruth McAdams -- Convergence : race and ethnicity in the work of Elmer Kelton / Joyce Roach -- The Hewey Calloway trilogy / James Ward Lee -- Reading instead of roping, writing instead of ranching, and qualifying for walrus hunter : humor in Elmer Kelton / Bob Frye -- Elmer Kelton speaks out - on the history of the western novel / Elmer Kelton.

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