Pecos Crossing

By Elmer Kelton

Book Overview

Johnny Fristo and Speck Quitman, young, hard-working cowboys from Fort Concho, Texas, have worked six months--at $20 a month--on the Devil's River. Their boss, a hawk-faced cow trader named Larramore,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765348950
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Forge Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.7" x 0.5" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Horsehead Crossing

Pecos Crossing is a reprint of a Balintine Western Original by Elmer Kelton titled Horsehead Crossing which is an actual ford on the Pecos River. It is the story of two cowboys who have left their winter trials behind and are looking for a good time in a town that didn't even show up on most maps, Sonora. But Speck Quitman gets too rowdy and Johnny Frisco runs afoul of a lawman with a short fuse. From then on it is a year and a half of run and jump, hide and wait, until Johnny finds the courage to confront the man tracking them. An exciting yarn full of twists and turns with every page. An exceptional story.

PECOS CROSSING

ANOTHER GOOD KELTON BOOK...IVE READ MANY OF HIS NOVELS, IF YOU LIKE WESTERNS, YOU SHOULD LIKE THIS ONE. X RANGER SEEKING REVENGE FOR THE KILLING OF HIS NEWLY WED WIFE. STRAIGHT FORWARD TALE,NOT A LOT OF SUB PLOTS. I CONFESS, IM A TRUE FAN OF ELMER KELTON.