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A graduate of the University of Texas, Elmer Award from Western Writers of America for best novels home in San Angelo. had studied under J. Frank Dobie, and his background of the year--Buffalo Wagons, The Day The Cowboys Kelton was kind to me when I functioned as a kid included a childhood growing up on the McElroy Ranch Quit, The Time It Never Rained, Eyes of the Hawk, reporter on the San Angelo Standard-Times back in the near Crane, Texas where his father, Buck Kelton, was Slaughter, The Far Canyon, and The Way of the Coy- early-1960s, and I was saddened that he had departed a foreman. ote. this earth at the age of 83 from what his wife Anna de- Kelton has received the awards and honorary doc- scribed as “multiple causes.” Always wore a hat torate degrees from MIdwestern and Texas Tech uni- My big regret is that I didnʼt get to know Kelton bet- versities. He was given a lifetime achievement award ter, for he was to become the greatest western novel- I never saw Elmer Kelton when he wasnʼt wearing by the National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock. The ist of all time, and a Texas legend-in-the-making who either a straw hat or a silver belly felt. Texas Legislature proclaimed an Elmer Kelton Day in will surely grow in death to be bigger than the “Staked After his stint as agriculture editor for the San An- April of 1997. Plain” and “Spindletop” combined. gelo daily, Kelton became editor of the Sheep and Goat Since 1996, Kelton has been an honorary member Elmerʼs great novel Buffalo Wagons was in the Raisers Magazine, and later went on to become asso- of the German Association for the study of the Western, book stores, and he was functioning as agriculture and ciate editor of Livestock Weekly in San Angelo where headquartered in Münster, Germany. This organization livestock editor for the San Angelo newspaper when he worked until his retirement in 1991. presents the Elmer Kelton Award for Literary Merit. I arrived at the Standard-Times, green as a Kimble I have read just about every novel that Kelton ever County gourd and dumber than an oyster in matters of wrote, and I can testify that there isnʼt a more accurate McMurtry Center award import which didnʼt interest me at the time. and true to his subject matter author than Elmer. He is a student of western and West Texas history in particu- In 1990, Elmer received the Distinguished Achieve- A bunch of drunks lar, and every Kelton novel is a history lesson in itself. ment Award from theWestern Literature Association. In Kelton was also a church-going Christian who 1998, Kelton received the fi rst Lone Star award for life- More than half of the newspaperʼs editorial staff chose to reach rather than preach, and I can recall the time achievement from the Larry McMurtry Center for members were drunks, and I was to happily join their blush on his cheeks as a state editor by the name of Arts and Humanities at Midwestern State University in number, drinking beer in the Red Rooster Inn and play- Kelly Crozier good naturedly chided him about his de- Wichita Falls. ing cards until past daylight in fi rst one apartment com- scription of a big-tittied saloon girl in one of his earlier The novelist served two years in the U.S. Army-- plex and then another before moving to San Antonio westerns. 1944-46, including combat infantry service in Europe, and the Express and News.