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Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in every of Traditional western fiction, profits in this novel of his youthful years as he and his cherished sibling Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the Western world Texas cow country.
The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with partner and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six parts--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch had 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 cent he earns and regularly gets into trouble along with his boss--and sometimes with the law--often dragging innocent Walter along.
When Walter falls in love with a boarding house lady and begins fantasizing of a farmer's life, Hewey jumps at the opportunity to rescue him out of this destiny worse than death. He convinces Walter to join him over a quest for Tarpley, driving 600 mind of cattle from beyond San Antonio to the Double-C ranch on the Pecos.
The voyage is both memorable and dangerous: a murderous outlaw is searching for Hewey; and another ruthless personality is set to sabotage the cattle drive. If the drovers reach the Pecos they find Employer Tarpley in the midst of a vicious range feud with Eli Jessup, a neighboring cowman. Hewey and his sibling Walter need to get the herd carefully across Jessup's land-but how?
The happenings of Six Pieces a Day precede those of Kelton's bestselling The Good Old Guys (1978, changed in to the memorable 1995 movie starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek), and The Smiling Country (Forge, 1998).
