Comanche Moon - Lonesome Dove Series - Picador Collection

The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon, which follows on from Dead Man's Walk, follows Rangers Gus and Call in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life.

It showcases Larry McMurtry’s strong affinity for the landscape and its inhabitants with a deeply felt lyrical intensity.

On the wild Texas frontier where barbarism and civilization come in many forms, Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are pitched into the long, bitter, bloody fighting under the command of Captain Inish Scull.

When Scull’s favourite horse is stolen by the Comanches, he decides to track him down, leaving Gus and Call in charge. However, on their return to Austin, Gus is greeted by the news that his sweetheart is to marry another man and Call finds that the town’s most notorious woman is desperate to settle down with him and become respectable. When Scull’s wealthy wife demands that her errant husband be brought home, with feelings akin to relief the two men set off once more into the vast, untamed plains . . .

Continue the series set in the American West with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove.

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Part of Lonesome Dove Series.

Follow the exploits of several members of the Texas Ranger Division from the time of the Republic of Texas up until the beginning of the 20th century.

Each book is a standalone.

In order of publication:

• Lonesome Dove (1985);

• Streets of Laredo (1993);

• Dead Man's Walk (1995);

• Comanche Moon (1997)

In order of internal chronology:

• Dead Man's Walk – set in the early 1840s;

• Comanche Moon – set in the 1850–60s;

• Lonesome Dove – set in mid-to-late 1870s;

• Streets of Laredo – set in the early 1890s.