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Title	:	The Good Old Boys (Hewey Calloway #1)
Author	:	Elmer Kelton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	April 15th 1999 by Forge Books (first published March 12th 1982)
Categories	:	Westerns. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Audiobook

The Good Old Boys (Hewey Calloway #1)

Elmer Kelton

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.29 | 653 Users | 68 Reviews

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Hewey Calloway has a problem. In his West Texas home of 1906, the land of the way of life that he loves are changing too quickly for his taste.

Hewey dreams of freedom--he wants only to be a footloose horseback cowboy, endlessly wandering the open range. But the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing: land is being parceled out, and barbed-wire fences are spring up all over. As if that weren't enough, cars and other machines are invading Hewey's simple cowboy life, stinking up the area and threatening to replace horse travel. As Hewey struggles against the relentless stream of "progress", he comes to realize that the simple life of his childhood is gone, that a man can't live a life whose time has passed, and that every choice he makes--even those that lead to happiness--requires a sacrifice.

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Original Title:	The Good Old Boys
ISBN:	0812575997 (ISBN13: 9780812575996)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Hewey Calloway #1

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Not your cowboy movie West but the West that lies beneath and still shapes the culture and politics and economics of today's Texas. Also a damn readable story about a character who is larger than most life, but well within the boundaries of real people.

Loved it.

Hands down, one of the best novels of the waning-Old West. Keltons protagonist, Calloway, is the perfect character study of the cowboy. The themes are surprisingly contemporary. Kelton drives the drama in this story with rock-solid character development, wry humour, and geographic and cultural accuracy -avoiding the cheap tricks of violence, sex or profanity.Well worth the read. This is on par with The Virginian by Wister, or novels by Eugene Manlove Rhodes: true literature of the Old West.

Sometimes you read a book at just the right time for it to be most impactful. This is my time for this book.When Hewey speaks to Eve about them still belonging to the old century, I can understand that now in a way I wouldn't have been able to if I had read this when it came out in 1978. It is much more personal, and much more powerful with the current change in one's surroundings, in one's country, in one's own self.But if I had read it then, I would still have found this to be a great story,

The truth inside stories is what makes them good, in any genre, and I think Kelton did a wonderful job with this book. Close to his own heart, and based in part on his own family and experiences, Kelton's story of the Calloways is one of the best westerns I've ever read. (The movie of the same name with Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek was very good, too, and stays quite true to the book.) There aren't a lot of unexpected plot twists or blazing shoot-outs, no lovely rancher daughters in distress

Simply an enjoyable read ! Great characters, realistic scenarios, some humour, good writing and some deeper stuff about families and life changing.

Kelton's story of the clash between the old and new ways is set in early 1900's west Texas, but the themes he raises are relevant today. Hewey Calloway, the old time cowpunching hero of the novel, decides to visit his brother on his farm after a winter on a New Mexico ranch. During his travels and visit, he encounters officious lawmen, barbed wire, and rules and conventions that go against his free roaming philosophy. While successfully avoiding the traps that the new ways of doing things have