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Dead Man's Walk


A Western Novel


Book 1 of the Lonesome Dove Series


Subgenres:

  • Historical Fiction,
  • Texas Rangers,
  • Coming-of-Age
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  • Frontier survival with Texas Rangers facing wild landscapes and wild people
  • Western adventures with unpredictable leaders and legendary outlaws
  • Early days of Gus and Call before they became legends
Publisher Description

The first of Larry McCurtry's Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove tetralogy, showcasing McCurtry's talent for breathing new life into the vanished American West through two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.

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.

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