<p>Seven-time Spur Award winner Elmer Kelton sets this 'completely absorbing' (Booklist) prequel to his award-winning classics <i>The Good Old Boys</i> and <i>The Smiling Country in 1889 Texas</i>. Hewey Calloway and his kid brother Walter head for West Texas hoping to live their cowboy dream. But when Walter's crush on a gal threatens the dream Hewey plots to get Walter back in the saddle again.