The Good Old Boys
- Published
- 1 January 1978
- Pages
- 257
- ISBN-13
- 9780099576211
- Type
- novel
About this book
Elmer Kelton introduced footloose cowboy Hewey Calloway in The Good Old Boys in 1978, a 257-page series opener whose gentle, comic tension with his more responsible younger brother Walter later carried over into a 1995 TNT television film starring Tommy Lee Jones.
Key facts about The Good Old Boys
Elmer Kelton wrote The Good Old Boys, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1978. The book has 257 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780099576211 to find the main one.
The Good Old Boys is book 1 of 6 in the Hewey Calloway series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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
The Good Old Boys is book 1 in the Hewey Calloway series. It is followed by The Smiling Country. 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 9780099576211