| Dead Man's Walk Contributor(s): McMurtry, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684857545 ISBN-13: 9780684857541 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 Annotation: The "prequel" to "Comanche Moon, " depicting the adventures of Woodrow McCall and Gus McCrae as young men adrift in the Old West. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95021011 |
| Series: Lonesome Dove |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.3" W x 8.1" (0.84 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first of Larry McCurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove tetralogy, showcasing McCurtry's talent for breathing new life into the vanished American West through two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call. As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call (Gus and Call for short) 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): McMurtry, Larry: - Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lives in Archer City, Texas. |