Lonesome Dove
- 858 pages
- 31 hours of reading
Two former Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, leave their Texas ranch to lead a cattle drive to Montana, encountering outlaws, Native Americans, and ex-loves along the way.
Lonesome Dove Series
This epic saga chronicles the lives and adventures of Texas Rangers and settlers on the untamed American frontier. Journey through breathtaking landscapes, facing perilous challenges, enduring loyalty, and profound loss. The narratives delve into themes of freedom, justice, and the search for belonging in a harsh yet beautiful land. It's a tale of courage against overwhelming odds and the enduring spirit of those who shaped the West.
Recommended Reading Order
Streets of Laredo
- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy. An exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, Streets of Laredo is classic Texas and Western literature at its finest.Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker. This long chase leads them across the last wild stretches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier.
The eagerly awaited prequel to McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winner Lonesome Dove features the beloved characters Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae as young Rangers, not yet twenty, in the days of the Texas Republic, and tells of how they are first confronted with the wild frontier that will mold them.
Comanche Moon
- 803 pages
- 29 hours of reading
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. Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. 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. 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. Comanche 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. At 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.