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Six Bits a Day by Elmer Kelton (2005, Hardcover)

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PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co

ISBN-100765309564

ISBN-139780765309563

eBay Product ID (ePID)45679545

Product Key Features

Book TitleSix Bits a Day

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicWesterns

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorElmer Kelton

Book SeriesHewey Calloway Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-005169

Reviews"Calloway is one of the most memorable characters in recent western fiction....His heart is as big as the open range."--Booklist "Kelton's latest is a bowl of beans book; it ain't fancy, but it sure is filling and it goes down good."--Texas Monthly on The Smiling Country "...Elmer Kelton, a wily old cloudburst, imbues his Westerns with ancient myths and modern motifs that transcend cowboys and cattle trails."--Dallas Morning News "One thing is certain: as long as there are writers as skillful as Elmer Kelton, Western literature will never die."--True West Magazine, "Calloway is one of the most memorable characters in recent western fiction....His heart is as big as the open range."-- Booklist "Kelton's latest is a bowl of beans book; it ain't fancy, but it sure is filling and it goes down good."-- Texas Monthly on The Smiling Country "...Elmer Kelton, a wily old cloudburst, imbues his Westerns with ancient myths and modern motifs that transcend cowboys and cattle trails."-- Dallas Morning News "One thing is certain: as long as there are writers as skillful as Elmer Kelton, Western literature will never die."-- True West Magazine

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume Number3

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisHewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country.The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching C.C. Tarpley. Hewey, who "usually accepted the vagaries of life without getting his underwear in a twist," is fun-loving and whiskey-drinking. He spends every penny he earns and regularly gets into trouble with his boss--and occasionally with the law--often dragging innocent Walter along.When Walter falls in love with a boarding house girl and begins dreaming of a farmer's life, Hewey jumps at the chance to rescue him from this fate worse than death. He convinces Walter to join him on a mission for Tarpley, driving 600 head of cattle from beyond San Antonio to the Double-C ranch on the Pecos.The journey is both memorable and dangerous: a murderous outlaw is searching for Hewey; and another ruthless character is determined to sabotage the cattle drive. When the drovers reach the Pecos they find Boss Tarpley in the midst of a vicious range feud with Eli Jessup, a neighboring cowman. Hewey and his brother Walter have to get the herd safely across Jessup's land-but how?The events of" Six Bits a Day" precede those of Kelton's bestselling" The Good Old Boys" (1978, transformed into the memorable 1995 movie starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek), and "The Smiling Country" (Forge, 1998)., Hewey Calloway returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The events of "Six Bits a Day" precede those of Kelton's bestselling "The Good Old Boys" and "The Smiling Country.", Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching C.C. Tarpley. Hewey, who "usually accepted the vagaries of life without getting his underwear in a twist," is fun-loving and whiskey-drinking. He spends every penny he earns and regularly gets into trouble with his boss--and occasionally with the law--often dragging innocent Walter along. When Walter falls in love with a boarding house girl and begins dreaming of a farmer's life, Hewey jumps at the chance to rescue him from this fate worse than death. He convinces Walter to join him on a mission for Tarpley, driving 600 head of cattle from beyond San Antonio to the Double-C ranch on the Pecos. The journey is both memorable and dangerous: a murderous outlaw is searching for Hewey; and another ruthless character is determined to sabotage the cattle drive. When the drovers reach the Pecos they find Boss Tarpley in the midst of a vicious range feud with Eli Jessup, a neighboring cowman. Hewey and his brother Walter have to get the herd safely across Jessup's land-but how? The events of" Six Bits a Day" precede those of Kelton's bestselling" The Good Old Boys" (1978, transformed into the memorable 1995 movie starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek), and "The Smiling Country" (Forge, 1998).

LC Classification NumberPS3561.E3975S49 2005