His battle with an unfathomable foe is the stuff of epics and legends. With a slow, elegiac, spare pace and narrative, Kelton draws you in to the life of the ranchers and cowboys as they toil with hands and brain, ideating creative solutions to lack of grass and then. He is courageous and self-sufficient but as real as his harsh and unforgiving West Texas home country. Charlie Flagg is a decent man, a rancher determined to do whatever it takes to salvage his ranch during the terrible west Texas drought of the 50s. It crept up out of Mexico, touching first along the brackish Pecos and spreading then in all directions, a cancerous blight burning a scar upon the land. Charlie Flagg, among the strongest of Elmer Kelton's memorable creations, is no pasteboard hero. The Time It Never Rained was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe. Refusing the questionable "assistance" of federal aid programs and their bureaucratic regulations, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again-"if" it ever rains again. Buy a cheap copy of The Time It Never Rained book by Elmer Kelton. To cranky Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a battle that he must fight on his own grounds. With all the rain Hollywood has endured lately, it's time to brighten up the stars' moods (and yours of course) with these slippery snaps of stars in the shower Hop into our gallery of Babes In. "And Rio Seco, meaning "dry river" in Spanish, symbolizes the biggest enemy of the ranchers and farmers in 1950s Texas, an enemy they can't control: drought.
""The Time It Never Rained "was inspired by actual events, when the longest and most severe drought in living memory pressed ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance."-Elmer Kelton"Rio"" Seco was too small to afford a professional manager for its one-room Chamber of Commerce.
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