Elmer Kelton was raised on a ranch near Andrews, Texas where he was exposed first-hand to life on the range. After graduating from the University of Texas in 1948, he worked as an associate editor for a newspaper prior to beginning his career as a novelist. He has since risen to the pinnacle of the Western genre winning countless accolades for his work. His “Sons of Texas” trilogy is one of his more recent collections of Western classics.
Sons of Texas (2005)
The year is 1816 and Mordecai Lewis leaves his farm in Tennessee for what's intended to be a short trip to Texas
to wrangle some wild horses and bring them back to sell. But unbeknownst to Mordecai, his teenage son Michael has secretly joined the party. When the group meets with trouble near the Louisiana border, Michael witnesses the death of his father along with most of the others, barely escaping with his own life. Vowing to settle the score, Michael returns to Texas five years later only to meet up with a young Stephen F. Austin and a new life on the Texas frontier.The Raiders (2006)
In this second book in the Sons of Texas series, members of the Lewis family resume their hard-
scrabble lives in the westward expansion of the American frontier. The elder Michael Lewis is a family man now, keeping a home with his wife Marie and three children even as he himself constantly feels the pull of adventure. Andrew, still a bachelor, remains the reliable one; constant in his devotion to duty and country (and secretly to Marie) amid the forbidding Texas borderlands. Together with other loyal homesteaders, the brothers confront Indian outlaws and Mexican partisans as well as an old Tennessee family they’ve long shared a blood feud with in this riveting tale of early life in the Lone Star state.The Rebels (2007)
The last book of the Sons of Texas trilogy finds the Lewis brothers still stran
gers in a foreign land, striving to raise their families and cultivate a living out of the unforgiving terrain near the Texas-Mexico border. Meanwhile race, politics, and outlaws intertwine as both Mexican and American cultures clash in the escalating tensions between the two countries. War arrives soon enough bringing the Lewis boys into the battle for Texas independence. Fictionalized renditions of legends Sam Houston, General Santa Anna, and Jim Bowie are included in this classic western adventure.
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