The Smiling Country
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 255
- ISBN-13
- 9780312864712
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Smiling Country followed twenty years later in 1998, the second entry at 255 pages, as Elmer Kelton returned intermittently across his career to the drifting, unambitious cowboy he'd introduced two decades before.
Key facts about The Smiling Country
Elmer Kelton wrote The Smiling Country, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1998. The book has 255 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312864712 to find the main one.
The Smiling Country is book 2 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
The Smiling Country is book 2 in the Hewey Calloway series. It follows The Good Old Boys. It is followed by Six Bits a Day. 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 9780312864712