In the 1870s, buffalo hunters moved onto the High Plains of Texas. 
The Plains Indians watched hunters slaughter the animals that gave 
them shelter and clothing, food and weapons. The battles at and near 
the ruins of a trading fort, Adobe Walls, became symbolic of the 
struggles between hunters and the Comanche.

    In this aptly titled novel, Texas novelist Elmer Kelton shows his 
uncanny ability to present both sides of a clash between cultures. 
With a firm grasp of Comanche life, Kelton presents The People as 
very human and very threatened. Equally clear is the picture of 
Anglos found on the high plains in those days—Jeff Layne, a 
Confederate veteran and now a fugitive; Nigel Smithwick, an English 
"second son" and gambler; Arletta, the lone woman among these 
men (one woman was at Adobe Walls).

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ELMER KELTON was voted All-Time Greatest Western Author by 
Western Writers of America, Inc. He has received seven Spur 
Awards for fiction from WWA, including one for Slaughter, four 
Western Heritage (Wrangler) Awards from the National Cowboy Hall 
of Fame and Western Heritage Museum, and lifetime achievement 
awards from WWA, the Western American Literature Association, 
and the Texas Institute of Letters. A former agricultural journalist, he 
is the author of about fifty novels. He and his wife, Ann, live in San 
Angelo.


Number Forty: The Texas Tradition Series


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