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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 happinessone that may require a great sacrifice.

The Smiling Country
It is now 1910 and Hewey Calloway's freewheeling life is coming to an endthe 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

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      Publisher: Forge
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9781250891969, 978-1250891969
      ISBN10: 1250891965

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 happinessone that may require a great sacrifice.

      The Smiling Country
      It is now 1910 and Hewey Calloway's freewheeling life is coming to an endthe 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

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