Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.8
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
75333
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
256
Points per Page
0.046875
Description
It is now 1910 and Hewey Calloway is old enough and smart enough to know his freewheeling cowboy days are coming to an end. He rethinks his decision to become foreman of Jenkin's new ranch in the "smiling country" of West Texas.