I may have to go back and read it some day (as if there weren't enough books to read without re-reading ones I have already read!) Read moreĬAPTAIN INISH SCULL liked to boast that he had never been thwarted in pursuit-as he liked to put it-of a felonious foe, whether Spanish, savage, or white. I read Lonesome Dove years ago and my memory is not to fresh. However, I'm glad I have finally read this book as it ties together Dead Man's Walk with Lonesome Dove. I think I could have gotten the message that he was a bad man without quite so much detail. I also found this book to dwell on brutality, especially the tortures of Ahumado, too much for my taste. I confess I didn't like Woodrow very much in this book. Gus may be an alcoholic but at least he is capable of love and understands human emotion. Woodrow was never able to bring himself to marry Maggie or accept Newt as his son and he seems a much lesser man for that. Maggie Tilton, the whore who loves Woodrow and bears his son, Newt, dies of tuberculosis while Woodrow and Gus are away on their final raid. Gus's great love, Clara Forsythe, married someone else and moved to Nebraska. Woodrow's and Gus's time as Texas Rangers is almost over as well. Kicking Wolf is still alive at the end of the book but he knows that the time of the Comanches as free people is all but over. In this book they are still Texas Rangers and they have had many skirmishes with the Comanches but by the end of the book Buffalo Hump has died. In it they meet up with the Comanche braves, Buffalo Hump and Kicking Wolf, for the first time. 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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