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.
Key facts about Six Bits a Day
Elmer Kelton wrote Six Bits a Day, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2005. The book has 252 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780786281442 to find the main one.
Six Bits a Day is book 3 of 6 in the Hewey Calloway series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with The Good Old Boys (1978).
Additionally, Elmer Kelton writes Buckalew Family, Sons of Texas and Texas Rangers as separate series. Those series sit on our western shelf. Meanwhile, Elmer Kelton's The Blessing is the latest published Elmer Kelton book on file, from 2025.
About Elmer Kelton
Elmer Kelton (1926-2009) was a Texas-born author widely regarded as one of the finest writers the Western genre produced, distinguished for trading gunfighter mythology for the harder, more specific realities of ranching and farming life. See every Elmer Kelton book in order.
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