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The Time It Never Rained

Elmer Kelton

Start date: April 1, 2025

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Jul 31, 2022 Sara rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 20th-century-literature, american, historical-fiction, archive-org, southern-lit, western, literary-fiction, survival, american-west

A year like this one anything you do is a mistake. Just being a rancher is a mistake. Only real difference I see between ranching and poker is, with poker you got some chance.

This is an age-old story of man against nature, man against man, and man against government; and Elmer Kelton tells it so well that you can feel that he has lived much of it in his own lifetime. There is a drought in West Texas, where Charlie Flagg owns a ranch and leases another large section of land to run cattle and ...more

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