Binding: Paperback
Description: The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country pairs two wonderful novels by one of the most honored of all western writers Elmer Kelton The Good Old Boys Hewey Calloway has a problem. He wants to be a footloose cowboy endlessly wandering the land on horseback but the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing. Land is being parceled out barbed - wire fences are springing up all over and cars are replacing the horse as a mode of transportation. Swimming against the tide of progress Hewey begins to understand that the time of the cowboy is over that the life he dreams of has become part of the past. He must find a new path to happiness one that may require a great sacrifice. The Smiling Country It is now 1910 and Hewey Calloway's freewheeling life is coming to an end the fences trucks and automobiles he hates are even creeping in to remote Alpine in the smiling country of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse Hewey's regrets over his lost love schoolteacher Spring Renfro haunt him as he sees the loneliness that awaits him. The Smiling Country is filled with humor love and the lore of the cowboy life at a time when the great free open ranges of the West were adjusting to a new technological era.
Title: The Good Old Boys And The Smiling Country
Author(s): Kelton Elmer
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250891969
Pages: 544 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/29/2022
Series: Hewey Calloway
Category: Westerns