Honor at daybreak / Elmer Kelton ; with an afterword by Joyce Gibson Roach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelton, Elmer.

Series:

Texas tradition series ; no. 32.

The Texas tradition series ; no. 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Texas--Fiction.

Texas.

Genre:

Western stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 397 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, [2002]

Summary:

Caprock, Texas, is a sleepy cow town until oil is discovered in the 1920s. Suddenly thousands of people stream in to find their fortune. Some are honest folk like Elise and Victor Underwood, who pray for a little luck with their daily bread. But too many are two-bit swindlers. And then there's frontier mobster Big Boy Daugherty. Sheriff Dave Buckalew faces a whole different set of circumstances as his town springs to life -- in good and not-so-good ways.

The town of Caprock is loosely based on Crane in West Texas, where Kelton grew up, although Crane did not exist until the oil boom.

Honor at Daybreak represents a departure for Kelton. There is no single dominant figure. Although Sheriff Buckalew represents a quiet strength that binds his town together, this is a book in which an entire community joins together to save itself.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 390).

ISBN:

0875652638

OCLC:

48375853