Texas Rangers (Kelton)
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The Buckskin Line
Number 1 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by George Guidall
4.2
(71)
This is a story of the early days when... An intense, red-haired young man named Rusty Shannon rides into Fort Belknap on the Brazos River and joins the Texas Rangers. Years before, Mike Shannon rescued Rusty from a Comanche war party and became his adoptive father. Not long ago, Mike Shannon, was bushwhacked and killed, and his death still haunts Rusty. Rusty thinks he knows the identity of Mike's killers. But with Texas now in the throes of seceding from the Union, Rusty has his hands full fighting for the law in lawless Texas and for the life of the woman he loves. If that were not enough of a burden, Rusty is also heading for a showdown with the Comanche warrior who killed his family over twenty years ago.
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The Buckskin Line [Dramatized Adaptation]
Number 1 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Full Cast, Terence Aselford, David Coyne, Richard Rohan
4.8
(19)
A Comanche war party raids settlements and steals horses. A young warrior named Buffalo Caller kills a young couple, then abducts their red-haired little boy. The boy is rescued by a volunteer defender of the white settlers named Mike Shannon, who raises the boy as his own and calls him Rusty. The Buckskin Line follows Rusty Shannon, who becomes a young man during the turbulent, lawless period of secession and the Civil War, as he seeks to avenge the murder of his foster father, crosses paths again with Buffalo Caller, and becomes one of the frontier defenders who will, in time, become known as The Texas Rangers.
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Badger Boy [Dramatized Adaptation]
Number 2 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Full Cast, Terence Aselford, David Coyne, Eric Messner
4.6
(14)
The Civil War is over and Confederate Texas is reluctantly yielding to Union military peace-keepers and regulations imposed by Washington. David "Rusty" Shannon is the member of a "ranging company" attempting to protect Texas settlers from Comanche depredations. He learns that the rangers are being disbanded. He makes his way home to his farm on the Colorado River, and discovers that the land around his home is filled with hostiles Indians, Confederates, and conscription-dodging renegades. Rusty's youth as a captive of the Comanches returns to haunt him when, in pursuit of Indian raiders, he finds the wounded Badger Boy, a white child who was orphaned and kidnapped by a Comanche warrior, and raised as an Indian for 5 years. Rusty takes on the task of nursing the boy back to health and trying to reunite him with relatives, if any have survived.
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Badger Boy
Number 2 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Jonathan Davis
4.6
(48)
Elmer Kelton is hailed as the greatest Western author of all time by the Western Writers of America, has earned six Spur Awards during his impressive career. In Badger Boy, Kelton effortlessly sweeps listeners back to the post-Civil War Texas frontier, where ranger Rusty Shannon hopes to settle down as a respectable farmer. But trouble brews when Rusty captures Badger Boy, a white child raised by the Comanches who murdered his parents.
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The Way of the Coyote [Dramatized Adaptation]
Number 3 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Full Cast, Terence Aselford, David Coyne, Elisabeth Demery
4.7
(9)
Young Andy Pickard, known among the Comanches as Badger Boy, is now a teenager, and has been learning to live with the Texans from whom he was stolen years before. His divided loyalties between the Comanches and the whites lead to another kidnapping. Five-year-old Billy Gifford is taken by a warrior named Fights With Bears. Andy must save his honor by trying to recover Billy. Rusty Shannon must defend his home against men who hold a grudge from the Civil War, and can do anything to him while hiding behind the badge of the State Police, as Texas suffers the pain of Reconstruction. Lives hang in the balance as people on both sides of the conflict learn something about the devious Way of the Coyote.
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The Way of the Coyote
Number 3 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Jonathan Davis
4.7
(44)
Elmer Kelton has been named the Greatest Western Writer of All Time by the Western Writers of America. Author of over 40 novels, he has received an unprecedented seven Spur Awards. The Way of the Coyote completes his saga of the Texas Rangers. Filled with the drama of frontier conflicts, this gripping book focuses on the adventures of Ranger Rusty Shannon after the Civil War.
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Ranger's Trail
Number 4 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Jonathan Davis
4.7
(32)
Seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton is a brilliant chronicler of the Wild West. Ranger's Trail takes listeners back to 1874 for a rousing tale of the legendary Texas Rangers. The Rangers are reorganizing, and they badly want Rusty Shannon to re-enlist. But Rusty has plans for a quiet, married life. Then a terrible tragedy destroys his world, and sends him down the treacherous trail of revenge.
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Ranger's Trail [Dramatized Adaptation]
Number 4 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Full Cast, Terence Aselford, David Coyne, Danny Gavigan
4.6
(10)
Rusty Shannon has left the Rangers and feels the need to settle down. He has brought up Andy Pickard, once a captive of the Comanches, now in his twenties and eager to see more of the world. Rusty's dream of marrying Josie Monahan and living the life of a farmer seems like Paradise, compared to the Civil War and the evils of Reconstruction. His dreams and plans, and the lives of the Monahans, are shattered by tragedy, and Rusty seeks revenge. By his side are Andy and an old friend from Ranger days, Len Tanner.
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Texas Vendetta
Number 5 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Jonathan Davis
4.6
(34)
Winner of a record seven Spur Awards, Elmer Kelton pens fast-paced stories with well-developed characters and unbeatable excitement. In the midst of a long-standing family feud, three Rangers must fight to keep order in the tenuous state of post-Civil War Texas.
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Texas Vendetta [Dramatized Adaptation]
Number 5 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, Tim Getman
4.9
(10)
In post-Civil War Texas, Andy Pickard, once known to his Comanche "family" as Badger Boy, is now in his mid-twenties and riding with the Texas Rangers. While delivering a prisoner for trial, he becomes entangled in a feud between the Landon and Hopper families. Andy works to help Jayce Landon, while at the same time keeping the boy Scooter Tennyson from being pulled into a life of crime. Lives are at stake, loyalties tested, and the worst aspects of human nature are exposed, in Texas Vendetta.
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Jericho's Road
Number 6 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Jonathan Davis
4.7
(31)
Elmer Kelton, author of more than 40 Western adventures, has won an unprecedented seven Spur Awards. Jericho's Road follows the perilous trail of young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard, who has been assigned to control feuding ranchers on each side of the Mexico-Texas border. Caught in the middle of a potential bloodbath, Andy is determined to find a peaceful way to end the conflict.
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Jericho's Road [Dramatized Adaptation]
Number 6 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, Joe Brack
4.5
(8)
Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned to the Texas-Mexico border, along with Len Tanner and Farley Brackett, to help stop rival cattle barons, Texan Jericho Jackson and Mexicano Guadalupe Chavez, who rob each other, and any ranchers in their path, driving the stolen animals across the border. Caught in the crossfire is rancher Big Jim McCawley and his family. A showdown is looming, and the only hope for avoiding bloodshed is the Texas Rangers.
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Hard Trail to Follow
Number 7 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Jonathan Davis
4.6
(32)
In Hard Trail to Follow by seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton, young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard vows to track down the bank robber he thinks killed his friend and mentor. But as he traverses the rugged terrain, Andy' s perplexed at the glowing reports of the felon' s kindness and integrity.
![Hard Trail to Follow [Dramatized Adaptation]](https://marvel-b1-cdn.bc0a.com/f00000000280066/cover.hoopladigital.com/grp_9781648804809_270.jpeg)
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Hard Trail to Follow [Dramatized Adaptation]
Number 7 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, Tim Getman
4.4
(8)
Andy Pickard felt ready to settle down, until the violent death of a good friend sends him on the road again, to bring a killer to justice. His trail takes him away from Bethel Brackett, but reunites him with old friends Rusty Shannon and Len Tanner. The bank-robbing fugitive he seeks may not even be the killer, but justice must be served. For many reasons, it's a hard trail to follow.
![Other Men's Horses [Dramatized Adaptation]](https://marvel-b1-cdn.bc0a.com/f00000000280066/cover.hoopladigital.com/grp_9781648804823_270.jpeg)
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Other Men's Horses [Dramatized Adaptation]
Number 8 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, Nanette Savard
4.3
(12)
Donley Bannister shot and killed Cletus Slocum for stealing and crippling one of his best horses. He ran, leaving his wife Geneva behind. She sets off to find him, with Ranger Andy Pickard on her trail, hoping she'll lead him to Donley. Cletus' brothers are on the road, too, seeking revenge. Along the way, Andy discovers that the innocent and devoted Geneva may have made the mistake of marrying the wrong man, and that her husband may be a moral man in some ways, but he has no difficulty with taking other men's horses. Bad choices and dangerous mistakes put Andy's future and his life at risk as he travels a lonely trail to bring a wanted man to justice.
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Other Men's Horses
Number 8 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Jonathan Davis
4.7
(34)
In Other Men's Horses, newlywed Texas Ranger Andy Pickard must track down Donley Bannister, on the run after killing a notorious horse thief. But when outlaws ambush Ranger Pickard, Bannister risks his life to rescue his pursuer-giving the injured young ranger reason to pause.
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Texas Standoff
Number 9 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Jonathan Davis
4.5
(37)
Having finished Texas Standoff, seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton-the Western Writers of America's "Best Western Writer of All Time"-took his leave with 50 notches on his gunbelt of classics. When Ranger Andy Pickard is sent to central Texas to investigate a series of killings and cattle thefts, two prominent cattlemen are prime suspects. But the rise of a gang of masked vigilantes and the arrival of a notorious hired gunman complicate matters.
![Texas Standoff [Dramatized Adaptation]](https://marvel-b1-cdn.bc0a.com/f00000000280066/cover.hoopladigital.com/grp_9781648804847_270.jpeg)
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Texas Standoff [Dramatized Adaptation]
Number 9 in Series
by Elmer Kelton
read by Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Danny Gavigan, Michael John Casey
4.4
(7)
Ranger Andy Pickard and new partner Logan Daggett become involved in an investigation of killings and stolen cattle, and find themselves in the middle of a 4-way fight, among two powerful cattlemen, a group of masked vigilantes called "regulators", and a hired assassin. Old resentments, mixed loyalties and misplaced trust feed the flames of battle. Andy and Logan may lose their jobs, even their lives, before their work is done.
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Texas Rifles
by Elmer Kelton
read by George Guidall
4.8
(34)
Six-time winner of the Golden Spur Award, Elmer Kelton crafts stories that carry listeners into some of the most vivid years of the American West. Texas Rifles is an action-filled tale of courage in the face of divided loyalties. In 1861, men are enlisting in the Texas Mounted Rifles to keep the land free from Indian raids. There are larger conflicts, however. Texas has seceded from the union while war brews between the North and the South. Sam Houston Cloud has just joined the Texas Rifles. But he is deeply disturbed by the suffering he sees on all sides: White and Indian, Texan and immigrant. Elmer Kelton has an amazing talent for sweeping away stereotypes and filling his novels with unique, unforgettable men and women who know the ways of the frontier. Audie Award-winning narrator George Guidall's performance is superb.
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