Texas Showdown [Dramatized Adaptation]($38.14Value)

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Elmer Kelton writes of his beloved home country, West Texas, in these two stories of cowmen and cow country. In "Pecos Crossing", two young cowboys, Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, have been cheated of six months' hard-earned pay by their rancher boss, Larramore and intend to get what is due to them. In "Shotgun", Two Forks, Texas, rancher Blair Bishop must contend with a mean customer named Macy Modock, who Bishop sent to prison ten years past. Modock is out of the hoosegow and has returned to Two Forks determined to get even with the man who sent him up the river. Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was an award-winning author of more than forty novels. He won seven Spur Awards from Western Writers of America and four Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. He was also the recipient of the Owen Wister Lifetime Achievement award. His novel The Good Old Boys was made into a television film starring Tommy Lee Jones. He also wrote sixteen works of nonfiction. He grew up on a ranch near Crane, Texas, served in the infantry in World War II, and earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas. His first novel, Hot Iron , was published in 1956. In addition to his novels, he worked as an agricultural journalist for forty-two years. Scott McCormick is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting. Michael John Casey is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting. Ken Jackson is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting. Christopher Graybill has performed solo or partial narration for more than seventy-five audio books, including Listen Up and Audie Award winners.