<strong>The Smiling Country</strong> is about a footloose puncher who finds out the hard waythat cowboys dont remain young forever and that the inevitable wear ... » 

The Smiling Country is about a footloose puncher who finds out the hard waythat cowboys dont remain young forever and that the inevitable wear and tearof a rugged life forces changes and compromises on the willing and unwillingalike. Elmer KeltonHewey Calloway did not know how old he was withoutstopping to figure and that distracted his attention from matters of realimportance.Elmer Kelton introduced Texas cowboy Hewey Calloway one of themost beloved characters in Western fiction almost thirty years ago in TheGood Old Boys. The novel was transformed into a memorable 1995 TV filmstarring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek.Hewey returns in The SmilingCountry It is 1910 and his freewheeling life is coming to an endthe fencestrucks and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine in thesmiling country of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break arenegade horse Hewey sees the loneliness that awaits him and regrets hisdecision to run away from the only woman he has ever loved the schoolteacherSpring Renfro. «