The Pumpkin Rollers By Elmer Kelton Western Hardcover with Dust Jacket EUC
The Pumpkin RollersBy Elmer KeltonHardcover with Dust Jacket, 301 PagesExcellent Condition, Smoke-free HomeFantastic writing – the writer is quotable on the personalities and habits of people in ways you won’t want to forget. It is uncanny how well he knows his characters – both male and female, young and old. Once I started, I couldn’t put it down, and Westerns are not a genre that I usually read!“In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farm boys, almost more trouble than they were worth.When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as green as they come. But Trey learns fast. He learns about deceit when a con man cheats him out of his grubstake and about love when he meets the woman he's destined to marry.And when luck finally sets him on a cattle drive to Kansas, Trey learns the trade from veteran drover Ivan Kerbow, but he also learns the code of violence