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The Smiling Country by Kelton, Elmer is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Smiling Country about?
<p><p>in The Texas Backlands In 1885, Twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's Father Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances, And The Boy Is Forced To Live With His Stepmother And Blair Meacham, A Hanger-on At The Farm. After The Death Of A Black Farmhand And Friend, And Another Accident That Almost Takes Joey's Life, The Boy Runs Away And Joins Forces With His Only Kin—beau Shipman, A Drunk And A Jailbird. Beau, Along With An Outlaw, A San Antonio Prostitute, And A Sheepman, Become Joey's Unlikely Partners As He Is Trailed By Their Murderous Meacham , In League With Joey's Stepmother In Their Scheme To Inherit The Shipman Farm.</p><h3>tulsa World</h3><p>kelton Is One Of America's Premier Western Novelists. Better Still, He Is One Of America's Premier Novelists Who Writes About His Beloved Southwest.</p>
Who reads The Smiling Country?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Kelton, Elmer
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812540192
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.29 / 5 (149 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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