Six Bits a Day

Seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton sets this "completely absorbing" (Booklist) prequel to his award-winning classics The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country in 1889 Texas. Hewey Calloway and his kid brother Walter head for West Texas- hoping to live their cowboy dream. But when Walter's crush on a gal threatens the dream, Hewey plots to get Walter back in the saddle again. ". related in a drawl that's sweet as pure honey."-Kirkus Reviews