Elmer Kelton leaves behind some big boots to fill. Well, he would have, had he worn boots. “I’ve got two glass ankles and flat feet,” he told me when we first met in June 1997, “and they don’t respond to high heels too well.” Kelton, who won a record seven Spur Awards from Western Writers of America for his novels, four Western Heritage Wrangler Awards (one for an art book on Howard Terpning) from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and countless other honors, died A
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