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Six Bits a Day by Elmer Kelton is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Six Bits a Day about?

"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 accept

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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Elmer Kelton
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Published
2022
Language
EN
ISBN
9798885781657
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction
Rating
4.12 / 5 (178 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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