![]() ![]() I figured McMurtry would get around to telling the whole story. ![]() Finally, Comanche Moon filled in the 1850s-1860s. Then the present title went back to Call's and Gus's young days in the 1840s when Texas was still a Republic. Ended up with a tetralology, messing with my mind in the order in which he published them. I figured I had seen the last of Call and Gus, though there was plenty more to tell if Larry McMurtry was of a mind to do it. When my Aunt gave my Grandfather Lonesome Dove for Christmas in 1985, I patiently waited for him to finish it before diving into the saga of Texas Rangers Woodrow McCall and Gus McRae. They will be astonished by the Mexican army. On their first expeditions -led by incompetent officers and accompanied by the robust, dauntless whore known as the Great Western- they will face death at the hands of the cunning Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and the silent Apache Gomez. Larry McMurtry in Dead Man's Walk third book on the Lonesome Dove series takes us back to the days when Woodrow Call and his friend Gus McCrae were young Rangers, first confronting the wild frontier that became their lives.Īs young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short) have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only the blazing heat and raging tornadoes, roiling rivers and merciless Indians, but also the deadly whims of soldiers. Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove #3), Larry McMurtry ![]()
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