03042cam a2200433 i 4500 608609726 TxAuBib 20221105120000.0 220407t20222005||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022016287 9798885781657 trade paperback (OCoLC)1310472796 TxAuBib rda Kelton, Elmer, author. Six bits a day / Elmer Kelton. 6 bits a day. Large print edition. Waterville, Maine : Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022. ©2005. 359 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Hewey Calloway ; 3 Hewey Calloway novels bk. 3 "Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching C.C. Tarpley. Hewey, who "usually accepted the vagaries of life without getting his underwear in a twist," is fun-loving and whiskey-drinking. He spends every penny he earns and regularly gets into trouble with his boss--and occasionally with the law--often dragging innocent Walter along. When Walter falls in love with a boarding house girl and begins dreaming of a farmer's life, Hewey jumps at the chance to rescue him from this fate worse than death. He convinces Walter to join him on a mission for Tarpley, driving 600 head of cattle from beyond San Antonio to the Double-C ranch on the Pecos. The journey is both memorable and dangerous: a murderous outlaw is searching for Hewey; and another ruthless character is determined to sabotage the cattle drive. When the drovers reach the Pecos they find Boss Tarpley in the midst of a vicious range feud with Eli Jessup, a neighboring cowman. Hewey and his brother Walter have to get the herd safely across Jessup's land-but how?"-- Provided by publisher. Cowboy Hewey Calloway travels to west Texas with his beloved brother, Walter, to find work, struggles to prevent his brother's ill-fated marriage, and drives six hundred head of cattle to a Pecos ranch in the face of dangerous challenges. 20221105. Large type books. Cattle drives Fiction. Ranch life Fiction. Brothers Fiction. Cowboys Fiction. Large type books. Western Fiction. Texas, West Fiction. Hewey Calloway ; 3. Hewey Calloway novels bk. 3.