Nymphaea 'Elmer Kelton'

Here is a short video showing the presentation to Shane Kelton, Elmer’s Grandson for Nymphaea ‘Elmer Kelton’.

From his Website…

WINNER OF EIGHT SPUR AWARDS
WINNER OF FOUR WESTERN HERITAGE AWARDS
VOTED BEST WESTERN AUTHOR OF ALL-TIME BY THE WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA

About Elmer Kelton

In 1987 he received the Barbara McCombs/Lon Tinkle Award for “continuing excellence in Texas letters” from the Texas Institute of Letters. In 1990 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western Literature Association. The Texas Legislature proclaimed Elmer Kelton Day in April 1997. In 1998 he received the first Lone Star award for lifetime Achievement from the Larry McMurtry Center for Arts and Humanities at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas. He also received honorary doctorates from Hardin-Simmons University and Texas Tech University. He was given a lifetime achievement award by the National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas.

Since 1996 Kelton has been an honorary member of the German Association for the Study of the Western, headquartered in Münster, Germany. This organization presents the Elmer Kelton Award for Literary Merit. Thus far the award has been given to Matt Braun, Thomas Jeier, Werner J. Egli, and scholar Birgit Hans of the University of North Dakota. More information on the German Association for the Study of the Western can be found at www.westernforschungszentrum.de.

Kelton is a native of Crane, Texas. He grew up on the McElroy Ranch, with which his father, the late R. W. “Buck’ Kelton, was associated for 36 years. After graduation from Crane High School he attended the University of Texas at Austin in 1942-44 and 1946-48, earning a B.A. degree in journalism. He spent 15 years as farm and ranch writer-editor for the San Angelo Standard-Times, five years as editor of Sheep and Goat Raiser Magazine and 22 years as associate editor of Livestock Weekly, from which he retired in 1990.

He served two years in the U. S. Army, 1944-46, including combat infantry service in Europe. He and his wife Ann, a native of Austria, have been married over 50 years. They have two grown sons, a daughter, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

THE GOOD OLD BOYS was made into a 1995 TV movie starring Tommy Lee Jones for the TNT cable network.