Recipient of Golden Saddleman Lone Star Lifetime Achievement and Western Heritage Awards Elmer Kelton is WWA's 'Greatest Western Writer of All Time.' Honored by WWA as one of history's 25 Best Westerns and based on an actual 1883 Texas cowboys' strike this Golden Spur Award-winning novel tells the gripping saga of veteran cowboys and upstart cattle lords vying for power-vainly resisting change. '. a damned good novel.'-San Francisco Chronicle