The late, great Elmer Kelton is one of my favorite authors of fiction, Kelton had a unique ability to write realistic stories with characters who were eminently relatable. Kelton has an underrated novel called “Honor at Daybreak” about the 1920s oil boomtowns of West Texas. In that book, a young, restless cowboy is questioning his lamenting the failings of the community in which he lived. An…
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