Six Bits a Day

In 1889, Hewey Calloway and his beloved brother, Walter, leave the family farm to find work in the West Texas cow country. When Walter falls in love and begins dreaming of a farmer's life, the fiddle-footed Hewey, content to work for six bits a day, jumps at the chance to rescue him from this fate worse than death.

He takes his brother on a mission for boss C C Tarpley, driving six hundred head of cattle from beyond San Antonio to the Double-C Ranch. Hewey's natural propensity for getting into jams makes the journey memorable and dangerous - and when the drovers return, they find Boss Tarpley in the midst of a range feud with a neighbouring cowman...