![]() ![]() ![]() The first book is Dead Man's Walk which tells the beginnings of the duo's life with the Texas Rangers. Read moreĬomanche Moon is the second book of the story of Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae. Two proud but very different men, they enlist with a Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief and a deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for torture.Ĭomanche Moon joins the twenty-year time line between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, following beloved heroes Gus and Call and their comrades-in-arms-Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker-in their bitter struggle to protect an advancing Western frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life.Īt once vividly imagined and unflinchingly realistic, Comanche Moon is a sweeping, heroic adventure full of tragedy, cruelty, courage, honor and betrayal, and the culmination of Larry McMurty's peerless vision of the American West. ![]() Call, now in their middle years, are just beginning to deal with the enigmas of the adult heart-Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him. ![]() Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. The epic four-volume cycle that began with Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove, is completed with this brilliant and haunting novel-a capstone in a mighty tradition of storytelling. ![]()
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