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When Call returns to Lonesome Dove after burying Gus, he encounters the town’s barber, Dillard Brawley. “What happened to the saloon?”
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Call leads the men in building a shelter in Montana, but really, by this point, it's only because he's there. Call decides to follow Gus's dying wish—to be buried in a place he fondly remembered near the Rio Grande (he and Clara had been happy there). Call does it.
Oct 2, 2012 · The story begins in the late 1870s in Lonesome Dove, a sunbaked speck of a town on the Texas-Mexico border. The turmoil during and immediately after the Civil War has subsided, and with it the need for aging former Texas Ranger captains like the book’s two primary figures, Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae.
Woodrow Call is immortalized in the mini-series Lonesome Dove, loosely based on the real Texan Charles Goodnight. In the series, he is portrayed as a strong, silent man with a mysterious and commanding presence.
The dentist's brother happened to be the town's sheriff, July Johnson. Reunited with Gus and Call, Jake's description of the Montana Territory inspires Call to gather a herd of cattle and drive them north, to begin the first cattle ranch north of the Yellowstone River.
- Larry McMurtry
- 1985
Aug 4, 2013 · The book ends with a one-legged man who only appeared briefly in the beginning (now an omage to Gus, who died with only one leg) telling Call what happened to the old saloon. He explains that Wanz burned the place down when Lorie — “that whore” — left, just he told her he would.
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Aug 3, 2023 · The historical accuracy of ‘Lonesome Dove’. Though Capt. Woodrow F. Call and Gus McCrae share some attributes with Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving, author Larry McMurtry said the book was never meant to be a faithful depiction of the era.
