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    Barbed Wire
    Barbed Wire
    Barbed Wire
    Audiobook6 hours

    Barbed Wire

    Written by Elmer Kelton

    Narrated by Ken Marks

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Recipient of seven Spur Awards, Elmer Kelton "just keeps getting better and better" (Tulsa World). When a ruthless cattle baron and his men destroy Doug Monahan's property, his old friend and mentor is gunned down. Pistol whipped and now flat broke, Monahan finds refuge on the sprawling homestead of Noah Wheeler and his virtuous daughter. But Monahan refuses to quit. "If there's an heir to the Louis L'Amour legacy, it's Kelton."-Booklist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 20, 2009
    ISBN9781440709449
    Barbed Wire
    Author

    Elmer Kelton

    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 were 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. He served in the infantry in World War II. He died in 2009.

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    • 5/5
      Listening to an Elmer Kelton book is great. Even after reading the book. It was a great experience!
    • 5/5
      A western yarn with a difference that makes it exciting. BobNZ
    • 4/5
      This is an excellent book from Elmer kelton. A barbed wire salesman runs afoul of the big rancher who runs the town of Twin Wells. Captain Rinehart doesn't want fences on the open range and orders Doug Monahan out of the county. But Monahan continues and finds a rancher willing to allow the fence to protect his herd. This is no by-the-numbers white/hat/black hat western. Most of the characters have justification for their decisions and you can see the rightness on both sides. Yes, there's a gunslinging sneaky bad guy, but even his story is different than the normal evil gunman type. Well told and worth reading.