Series: Book 3 in the Lonesome Dove series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Western, Classic Fiction
Summary
Split from:
The Lonesome Dove Chronicles
Dead Man’s Walk
As 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. 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.
They will be astonished by the Mexican army. And Gus will
meet the love of his life.
Comanche Moon
Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow Call, now in
their middle years, are still figuring out how to deal with
the ever-increasing tensions of adult life--Gus with his
great love, Clara Forsythe, and Call with Maggie Tilton, the
young whore who loves him--when they sign up to pursue the
Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf into Mexico. On this
mission their captain, Inish Scull, is captured by the
brutally cruel Mexican bandit Ahumado, and Gus and Call must
come to the rescue, with the aid of new friends including
Joshua Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker, as well as the
renowned Kickapoo tracker, Famous Shoes.
Lonesome Dove
Gus and Call, now retired from the Texas Rangers and
settled in the border town of Lonesome Dove running the Hat
Creek Cattle Company, are visited by their old friend Jake
Spoon, who convinces Gus and Call to gather a herd of cattle
and drive them north to Montana in order to start a cattle
ranch in untouched territory. Gus is further motivated by a
desire to see the love of his life, Clara Allen (nee
Forsythe), who now lives with her children and comatose
horse-trader husband in Ogallala, Nebraska. On the way to
Montana they travel through wild country full of thieves,
murderers, and a lifetime's worth of unforgettable adventure.
Streets of Laredo
Woodrow Call is back in Texas, a Ranger once again and
a general gun-for-hire, but increasingly a relic as the
westward sprawl of the railroads rapidly settles the once
lawless frontier. Hired by a railroad tycoon to hunt down a
dangerous bandit named Joey Garza, Call sets out once again
with a hapless Yankee named Ned Brookshire who works for the
railroad company that hired Call. Call's old friend Pea Eye
Parker--who initially refused to join the expedition because
of his family--sets off with the Kickapoo tracker Famous
Shoes to try to catch up with Call, until he runs into
troubles of his own. The long pursuit of Garza leads them all
across the last wild stretches of the West into a hellhole
known as Crow Town and, finally, into the vast, relentless
plains of the Texas frontier.