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This is the 2nd of two prequels McMurtry wrote about Call and Gus. leading then into the award-winning Lonesome Dove and the finale, The Streets of Laredo. This one begins in Austin a few years after the murderous adventure in Dead Man's Walk. Here, the Comanches continue to out-duel the Rangers at every grueling step they take in the badlands of Texas. They still have Buffalo Hump to contend with, his blood-thirsty son, Blue Duck, the famous and confounding horse-thief, Kicking Wolf, and even t
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[3.5 stars] There are two novels here: one 5-star read and one 3-star read. The prose is as wonderful as usual. If you’ve read McMurtry, you know whether you like it or not. He’s not the most succinct writer, but his authorial voice is authentic in a way few others are. Also, McMurtry writes killer characters. He could write a huge novel with hundreds of characters and they would all stick in my mind. And in the first half of this novel, he establishes a unifying narrative that’s hard among one
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