Texas Ranger series by Kelton continues

Elmer Kelton, the masterful Western author from San Angelo who passed away in August, completed two more novels in his Texas Ranger series before he died. The first one, “Other Men’s Horses” (Forge, $24.99 hardcover), has just hit the bookstores. It is the eighth novel in the Ranger series. One more is due next year, which should in turn lead to a third repackaged trilogy the following year. Andy Pickard is back as the lead character, still serving as a Texas Ranger in the 1880s but wishing he could retire from the force and spend more time with his young wife, Bethel, on their farm. But rangering provides a more stable income than farming, and at this stage in their marriage they need the money. He is assigned to track down a man who killed a horse thief, which he does in short order only to find the man’s associates ready to kill him. The wanted man saves Pickard’s life and then hightails it, but Pickard warns him that he will still have to hunt him down and bring him to justice...read more