Pecos Crossing - Brossura

Kelton, Elmer

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0765348950 ISBN 13: 9780765348951

Casa editrice: Forge, 2008

Riassunto

When their boss, a disreputable cow trader named Larramore, skips out, owning them six months wages, and heads for San Angelo, Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, two young, hard-working cowboys and inseparable friends with vastly different personalities, set out to pursue their sneaky employer to get the money they are owed. Original.

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L'autore:

Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was the award-winning author of more than forty novels, including The Time It Never Rained, Other Men's Horses, Texas Standoff and Hard Trail to Follow. He grew up on a ranch near Crane, Texas, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas. His first novel, Hot Iron, was published in 1956. Among his awards have been seven Spurs from Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. His novel The Good Old Boys was made into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones. In addition to his novels, Kelton worked as an agricultural journalist for 42 years, and served in the infantry in World War II. He died in 2009.

Product Description:

Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, young, hard-working cowboys from Fort Concho, Texas, have worked six months - at $20 a month - on the Devil's River. Their boss, a hawk-faced cow trader named Larramore, reneges on the money he owes the boys and sneaks out of the cow camp and heads for San Angelo.Fristo is tall and thin, his mind a hundred miles away; Quitman is short, bandy-legged, and 'bedazzled by the flash of cards and the slosh of whiskey'. The two are as different as sun and moon but are inseparable - and now they have a mission: find Larramore and extract the money he owes them.

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• Editore: Forge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0765348950
• ISBN 13: 9780765348951
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 170