Stand Proud

In <strong>Stand Proud</strong> one of his most controversial novels legendary Westernwriter Elmer Kelton takes on a character who is not as easy to like as he ... » 

In Stand Proud one of his most controversial novels legendary Westernwriter Elmer Kelton takes on a character who is not as easy to like as he is toadmire. Frank Claymore is cantankerous stubborn and intolerantjust thequalities that make him a success as an openrange cattle rancher on the WestTexas frontier. Stand Proud follows Claymore form the time of the Civil War tothe dawn of the twentieth centurythrough marriage births deaths and acreeping change in the society that once hailed him as a hero and which laterhas him condemned as a despoiler and tried for murder. Based in part oflegendary rancher Charles Goodnight Claymore is only one example of the manymen who dreamed of cattle and through their dedication to that dream came tochange the face of Western history. «