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      The Smiling Country

      by Elmer Kelton
      Published
      Aug 1998
      Main Genre
      Historical Historical
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      Series
      Hewey Calloway Book 3

      About This Book

      Elmer Kelton introduced Texas cowboy, Hewey Calloway, one of the most beloved characters in Western fiction, almost thirty years ago in The Good Old Boys. The novel was transformed into a memorable 1995 TV film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek.

      Hewey returns in The Smiling Country. It is 1910 and his freewheeling life is coming to an end--the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine, in the "smiling country" of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, Hewey sees the loneliness that awaits him and regrets his decision to run away from the o he has ever loved, the schoolteacher Spring Renfro.

      Series Placement

      Book 3
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      Genres & Themes

      Genres

      Western

      Subgenres

      Historical

      Characters & Occupations

      Cowboys

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