Title: The Smiling Country (Hewey Calloway)
Description: Elmer Kelton introduced Texas cowboy Hewey Calloway, one of the most beloved characters in Western fiction, almost thirty years ago in The Good Old Boys. The novel was transformed into a memorable 1995 TV film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek. 

Hewey returns in The Smiling Country. It is 1910 and his freewheeling life is coming to an end - the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine, in the "smiling country" of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, Hewey sees the loneliness that awaits him and regrets his decision to run away from the only woman he has ever loved, the schoolteacher Spring Rentro.
Subjects: Fiction, Ranch life, Cowboys, Fiction, westerns, Texas, fiction