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Dead man's walk : a novel

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. As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call 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. On their first expeditions--led by incompetent officers and accompanied by the robust, dauntless whore known as the Great Western--they will face death at the hands of the cunning Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and the silent Apache Gomez. They will be astonished by the Mexican army. And Gus will meet the love of his life.

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  • "Dead man's walk"
  • "Larry McMurtry's Dead man's walk"

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  • "As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only blazing heat and raging tornadoes, roiling rivers and merciless Indians, but also the deadly whims of soldiers. On their first expeditions - led by incompetent officers and accompanied by the robust, dauntless whore known as the Great Western - they will face death at the hands of the cunning Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and the silent Apache Gomez. They will be astonished by the Mexican army. And Gus will meet the love of his life..."
  • "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. As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call 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. On their first expeditions--led by incompetent officers and accompanied by the robust, dauntless whore known as the Great Western--they will face death at the hands of the cunning Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and the silent Apache Gomez. They will be astonished by the Mexican army. And Gus will meet the love of his life."@en
  • "These are the wild days when Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call - heroes of Lonesome Dove - first encounter the untamed frontier that will form their characters. Not yet twenty, Gus and Call enlist as Texas Rangers under the command of Caleb Cobb, a capricious outlaw determined to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans. The two young men experience their first great adventure in the barren, empty landscape of the great plains, in which arbitrary violence is the only law - whether from nature, or from those whose territory they must cross in order to reach New Mexico."
  • "Prequel to Lonesome dove. Introduces Gus and Call when they were young Texas Rangers, first experiencing the wild frontier."@en
  • "In 1840s Texas we're introduced to Lonesome Dove heroes Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call."@en
  • "The adventures of two youthful Rangers in the days of the Texas Republic. They battle heat, thirst, bandits, Indians and the Mexican Army to emerge mature men."@en
  • "Gus & Call are not yet 20, young men coming of age in the days when Texas was still an independent republic. Enlisting in the Texas Rangers."
  • "Donation."
  • "The adventures of two youthful Rangers in the days of the Texas Republic. They battle heat, thirst, bandits, Indians and the Mexican Army to emerge mature men. By the author of Lonesome Dove."
  • "Here at last is the eagerly awaited story of the early days of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, the heroes of Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove. In Streets of Laredo, McMurtry brought the story ahead, giving us Call in his old age; now, in Dead Man's Walk, he takes the reader back, to the days when Gus and Call - two of the most beloved figures in American fiction - were young Texas Rangers, first experiencing the wild frontier that will form their characters. We also meet Clara Forsythe, the spirited, unforgettable young woman whose effect on Gus McCrae is immediate and unshakable. In Dead Man's Walk, Gus and Call are not yet twenty, young men coming of age in the days when Texas was still an independent republic. Enlisting as Texas Rangers under the command of Caleb Cobb, a capricious land pirate who wants to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans, Gus and Call experience their first great adventure in the barren, empty landscape of the great plains, in which arbitrary violence is the rule - whether from nature, or from the Indians whose territory they must cross in order to reach New Mexico. The untamed frontier, and the reckless men who live there - the Indians defending it with unrelenting savagery, the Texans attempting to seize and "civilize" it, and the Mexicans threatened by both - are at the heart of Larry McMurtry's extraordinary new novel: at once a riveting adventure story and a powerful work of literature."
  • "Takes you back to the days when Gus and Call were young Texas Rangers, first experiencing the wild frontier. We meet Clara Forsythe, the spirited, young woman whose effect on Gus McCrae is immediate and unshakable, the great ferocious Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump, and the Apache kidnapper Gomez."
  • "Two youthful Texas Rangers, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, battle heat, thirst, bandits, Indians, and the Mexican Army in an expedition to New Mexico during the early days of the Texas Republic. By the author of Lonesome Dove."
  • "As young men, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, the heroes of the author's Lonesome Dove, enlist in the Texas Rangers."
  • ""This is where the Lonesome Dove saga began. At a time when 3 cultures, Anglo, Hispanic and Comanche were in conflict over the same land, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call are young rangers. Ripe for adventure they go on an expedition under the leadership of land pirate and soldier Caleb Cobb. The rangers suffer at the hands of the treacherous leadership and soon encounter the Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and the silent Apache, Gomez"--ViaVision.com.au."
  • "Follows the adventures of Texas Rangers Gus and Call as they join an expedition to seize the Mexican territory of Santa Fe and journey home across the Jornada Del Muerto."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Western stories"@en
  • "Western stories"
  • "Western television programs"
  • "Drama"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Adventure stories"@en
  • "Adventure stories"
  • "Radio and television novels"@en
  • "Television mini-series"
  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "Dead man's walk / S a novel"
  • "Dead man's walk : a novel"
  • "Dead man's walk : a novel"@en
  • "Dead man's walk : The First adventures of Gus & Call, the heroes of Lonesome Dove"
  • "Pustyni︠a︡ smerti"
  • "Dead man's walk : a novel : Lonesome Dove/ Book 1"@en
  • "Dead man's walk a novel"@en
  • "Dead man's walk: a novel"
  • "Dead Man's Walk"@en
  • "Dead Man's Walk"
  • "Dead man's walk"
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