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Author: Elmer Kelton

📘 The Smiling Country (Hewey Calloway) by Elmer Kelton

In the 1910 setting of the remote Alpine region in West Texas, the rugged cowboy Hewey Calloway’s freewheeling ranch life is threatened by fences, trucks, and automobiles. After a severe injury while breaking a renegade horse, Hewey confronts the loneliness and regret that accompany his old ways, reflecting on the woman he has never truly left – schoolteacher Spring Rentro. This is the next chapter in Kelton’s celebrated series featuring the beloved cowboy of Western fiction.

First publish date: 2000

Genre: Western Fiction/Historical Western

Authors: Elmer Kelton

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