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LocationOakland
Call NoW KEL #3 HEWEY CALLOWAY
TitleSix Bits a Day / Elmer Kelton
AuthorKelton, Elmer
Barcode527895
CollectionLarge Print Western
SummaryHewey Calloway, the best-loved cowboy in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years. In 1889, Hewey and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm to find work in the West Texas cow country. When Walter falls in love with a boarding-house girl and begins dreaming of a farmer's life, the fiddle-footed Hewey, content to work for six bits a day, jumps at the chance tp rescue him from this fate worse than death. He takes his brother on a mission for boss C.C. Tarpley, driving six hundred head of cattle from beyond San Antonio to the Double-C ranch on the Pecos.
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LocationStatusBarcodeCall NoCollectionShelf LocCirc Status
Oakland 527895W KEL #3 HEWEY CALLOWAYLarge Print Western Available

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 0-7862-8144-8
International Standard Book Number 9798885781657
Personal Name Kelton, Elmer
Title Statement Six Bits a Day / Elmer Kelton
Edition Statement Large Print edition
Imprint Waterville, ME Thorndike 2005
Physical Description 364 p. (lg print) Softcover 22 cm.
Series Statement Hewey Calloway 3
Summary, Etc. Hewey Calloway, the best-loved cowboy in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years. In 1889, Hewey and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm to find work in the West Texas cow country. When Walter falls in love with a boarding-house girl and begins dreaming of a farmer's life, the fiddle-footed Hewey, content to work for six bits a day, jumps at the chance tp rescue him from this fate worse than death. He takes his brother on a mission for boss C.C. Tarpley, driving six hundred head of cattle from beyond San Antonio to the Double-C ranch on the Pecos.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Large type books.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Cattle drives. Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Western Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Action & Adventure. Fiction.