Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the West

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Two complete novels from the legendary Western author Elmer Kelton in one low-priced edition: Buffalo Wagons and Cloudy in the WestBuffalo Wagons For Gage Jameson, the summer of 1873 has been a poor hunt. A year ago he felled sixty-two buffalo in one stand, but now the great Arkansas River herd is gone, like the Republican herd before it. In Dodge City, old hide hunters speak in awe of a last great heard to the south--but no hunter who values his scalp dares ride south of the Cimarron and into Comanche territory. None but Gage Jameson. . . . Cloudy in the West In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman' s father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another accident that almost takes Joey' s life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin--Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute, and a sheepman become Joey' s unlikely partners as he is trailed by their murderous Meacham, in league with Joey' s stepmother in their scheme to inherit the Shipman farm.