An edition of Dead Man's Walk (1995)

Dead man's walk

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Dead man's walk
Larry McMurtry
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An edition of Dead Man's Walk (1995)

Dead man's walk

  • 3.33 ·
  • 3 Ratings
  • 18 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

Here at last is the eagerly awaited story of the early days of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, the heroes of Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove.

In Streets of Laredo, McMurtry brought the story ahead, giving us Call in his old age; now, in Dead Man's Walk, he takes the reader back, to the days when Gus and Call - two of the most beloved figures in American fiction - were young Texas Rangers, first experiencing the wild frontier that will form their characters. We also meet Clara Forsythe, the spirited, unforgettable young woman whose effect on Gus McCrae is immediate and unshakable.

In Dead Man's Walk, Gus and Call are not yet twenty, young men coming of age in the days when Texas was still an independent republic.

Enlisting as Texas Rangers under the command of Caleb Cobb, a capricious land pirate who wants to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans, Gus and Call experience their first great adventure in the barren, empty landscape of the great plains, in which arbitrary violence is the rule - whether from nature, or from the Indians whose territory they must cross in order to reach New Mexico.

The untamed frontier, and the reckless men who live there - the Indians defending it with unrelenting savagery, the Texans attempting to seize and "civilize" it, and the Mexicans threatened by both - are at the heart of Larry McMurtry's extraordinary new novel: at once a riveting adventure story and a powerful work of literature.

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Dead Man's Walk
2015, Picador
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Dead Man's Walk: A Novel
October 17, 2000, Simon & Schuster, Scribner Paperback Fiction
Paperback in English
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Dead man's walk: a novel
1996-06, Simon & Schuster
in English
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Dead man's walk: a novel
1996, Pocket Books
in English
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Dead man's walk
1996, [s..n.]
in English - PBK ED.
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Dead man's walk
1996, G.K. Hall & Co.
in English
Cover of: Dead man's walk
Dead man's walk
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"MATILDA JANE ROBERTS WAS naked as the air."

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