Hewey Calloway · Book 3
Six Bits a Day
- Published
- 1 January 2005
- Pages
- 252
- ISBN-13
- 9780786281442
- Type
- novel
About this book
Six Bits a Day, from 2005, is the third book and the shortest of Elmer Kelton's original run at 252 pages, closing out the trilogy he wrote himself before his son Steve Kelton and, later, John Bradshaw continued the character after Kelton's 2009 death.
Its place in Hewey Calloway
Six Bits a Day is book 3 in the Hewey Calloway series. It follows The Smiling Country. It is followed by Elmer Kelton's The Unlikely Lawman. See the full Hewey Calloway reading order.
Hewey Calloway is a footloose, endearingly unambitious cowboy in early-1900s West Texas -- happier drifting from ranch to ranch and outfit to outfit than settling down, in gentle, comic tension with his more responsible younger brother Walter, who wants to marry and farm. Elmer Kelton wrote the first three books over nearly three decades (The Good Old Boys, 1978; The Smiling Country, 1998; Six Bits a Day, 2005), returning to the character intermittently across his career; The Good Old Boys was adapted into a 1995…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780786281442