Resources
INTERVIEWS AND BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON ELMER KELTON
- Get it straight from the horse's mouth at Elmer Kelton's Home Page!
http://www.elmerkelton.net/ - Austin City Search has a short interview with Elmer Kelton.
http://austin.citysearch.com/feature/19335/ - A complete list of books by Elmer Kelton from Tally Press
http://www.talleypress.com - In 1997, Texas created a special day for Elmer Kelton! Read about it at Texas News.
http://www.texnews.com/texas97/kelton052997.html - Elmer Kelton's family has tracked their heritage on the Kelton Family Homepage
www.kelton.org, where they include- A bibliography: www.kelton.org
- Stories about this famous Kelton: http://kelton.org/notables/elmer.html
LITERATURE AND MEDIA ABOUT TEXAS AND THE OLD WEST
- American Western Magazine http://www.ReadTheWest.com celebrates the traditions, culture, art, films, music & literature of the American West with the latest news on western literature and films and features such as:
- "Gentleman Cowboy Poet" Ron Brinegar's poetry and humor
http://www.ReadTheWest.com/ronbrinegar.htm - Archives of western poetry and short stories:
http://www.ReadTheWest.com/ArchivePoetry.html
- "Gentleman Cowboy Poet" Ron Brinegar's poetry and humor
- Black Cowboys on the Internet has links to the history of African-American cowboys in Texas and the old west: http://www.blackcowboys.com/
- Cyberspace Spinner: An archive of western fiction, provides information on western literature, authors and cinema. It also has archives on Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy genres: http://www.hycyber.com/WEST/WESTindex.html
- Fieldnotes West has reading lists for western literature.
http://fieldnoteswest.com/reading_list_fs.html - The Southwestern Writers Collection and Witcliffe Gallery Southwestern Texas University has an archive of Elmer Kelton's life and work.
http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/kelton.html and many other treasures, including the Hispanic Writers Collection that features archives on Jovita Gonzalez, border music and more!
http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/jovita.html and http://www.library.txstate.edu/swwc/misc/hispanic.html - Texas writers are known for their colorful use of language. You can get a taste of the whole enchilada at Texas Talk, a dictionary compiled by The Armadillo Server at Rice University: http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Texas/talk.html
- The PBS series, New Perspectives on The West offers a variety of lesson plans to use with the series, including activities on understanding the history of water use:
- Writer's Audio sells audiorecordings of speeches and presentations by writers,
- Including Texas Writers on Writing
http://www.writersaudio.com/texas.html - Texana archives featuring Elmer Kelton discussing his oft-used axiom that "Fiction Writers Are Liars and Thieves"
http://www.writersaudio.com/texana.html
- Including Texas Writers on Writing
