The Smiling Country - Large Print Author:Elmer Kelton It is now 1910 and Hewey's freewheeling life is coming to an end--the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine, in the "smiling country" of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, he thinks for the first time of his future and sees the loneliness that awaits him, ... more »and regrets his decision to run away from the only woman he had ever loved, the schoolteacher Spring Renfro.« less