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Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.
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It's one of the most fun reading experiences I've had in a long time. I'm trying to decide whether I should check out the prequels, Dead Man's Walking and Comanche Moon. But I'm worried that the prequels won't be anywhere near as good as Lonesome Dove and that they'll end up tarnishing my opinion.
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Nov 5, 2019 · "Dead Man's Walk" is a prequel to "Lonesome Dove" and offers up the story of Call and Gus as they begin their careers as Texas Rangers. Where "Lonesome Dove" shows the two characters in their wizened forms, "Dead Man's Walk" shows them as real greenhorns poised to be molded into the hardened leaders of men they would become.
Lonesome Dove has been adapted into a number of television series and miniseries which include ‘Comanche Moon’, ‘Lonesome Dove’, ‘Return to Lonesome Dove’, Dead Man’s walk’, ‘Streets of Loredo’, ‘Lonesome Dove the Series’, and ‘Lonesome Dove The Outlaw Years’.
May 24, 2010 · 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.
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Dead Man's Walk is a 1995 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the third book published in the Lonesome Dove series but the first installment in terms of chronology.
Sep 1, 1995 · DEAD MAN'S WALK. by Larry McMurtry ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1995. bookshelf. shop now. A bloated, pointless-seeming prequel to 1985's bestselling Lonesome Dove. In his fourth book in three years, McMurtry (most recently, The Late Child, p. 417) introduces us to future heroes Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae—here, green Texas Rangers who've ...
