As he flees to the sanctuary of Mexico, Chacho Fernandez is 
unaware of the fuel he has added to the already simmering racial 
hatreds in and around the quiet town of Domingo, Texas. Through 
events set in motion by a misunderstanding, Chacho becomes a folk 
hero to his people and a dangerous fugitive to a group of zealous 
lawmen.

    First published in 1974 by Ballantine Books, Manhunters, the 
tale of Chacho's legendary flight, was inspired by the story of 
controversial Mexican fugitive Gregorio Cortez. In 1901 Cortez, a 
young horseman, shot a sheriff during an argument, leading to the 
largest concerted manhunt in Texas history.

    This novel is alive with the idiom of Kelton's native West Texas 
and freely punctuated with his trademark wry humor. His characters, 
both the ignorantly petty as well as the quietly strong, ring true to life.

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ELMER KELTON is the author of over forty novels, published over 
the last fifty years, all dealing with Texas and the West. Three of 
Kelton's novels have appeared in Reader's Digest Condensed Books. 
Four have won the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy 
Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City: The Time It Never Rained, The Good 
Old Boys, The Man Who Rode Midnight, and the text for The Art of 
Howard Terpning. Seven have won the Spur award from Western 
Writers of America: Buffalo Wagons, The Day the Cowboys Quit, The 
Time It Never Rained, Eyes of the Hawk, Slaughter, The Far Canyon, 
and The Way of the Coyote. Kelton holds lifetime achievement awards 
from Western Writers of America, Inc., the Texas Institute of Letters, 
and the Western Literature Association.


Number Twenty-two: The Texas Tradition Series