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In the late 1870s, [1] Captain Woodrow F. Call and Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae, two famous retired Texas Rangers, run the Hat Creek Cattle Company and Livery Emporium in the small Texas border town of Lonesome Dove.
- Larry McMurtry
- 1985
Dead Man's Walk follows Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae (Gus) back in their younger days. On their first expedition the Rangers are stalked by Buffalo Hump, a Comanche Chief. After this expedition concludes, Call and Gus join another expedition led by a man named Colonel Cobb.
Apr 22, 2020 · In McMurtry’s story, aging ex-Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae head the cattle drive. “McMurtry examines their bond—an unspoken and hardly understood friendship,” the Los Angeles Daily News reviewed.
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In the late 1870s, Captain Augustus "Gus" McCrae and Captain Woodrow F. Call, two famous former Texas Rangers, run a livery in the small, dusty Texas border town of Lonesome Dove along the Rio Grande. Gus is an upbeat womanizer and twice a widower, and Call is a strict, stoic workaholic.
The two central characters are Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, retired Texas Rangers who are partners in a failing cattle ranch in Lonesome Dove, Texas.
Jan 1, 2001 · A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.
Jun 9, 2020 · The novel’s protagonists were Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae, former Texas Rangers who embodied the mythic cowboy traits of being loyal and fierce fighters.
