In 1948, Texas native and famed Western writer Elmer Kelton moved to San Angelo to be the farm-and-ranch editor for the San Angelo Standard-Times. His storied career as the author of over 40 books is celebrated in a mural at 118 S. Chadbourne St. in his adopted hometown.— Courtesy The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division —[/capt


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