Dead Man's Walk

Dead Man's Walk is a novel by Larry McMurtry. Though published third, it is chronologically first in the Lonesome Dove series. McMurtry wrote a final and fourth segment to the Lonesome Dove chronicle, Comanche Moon, which describes the events of Gus and Call's lives between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove. Dead Man's Walk details the earliest adventures of the young Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call as they join up with the Texas Rangers on a fi... more

Dead Man's Walk is a novel by Larry McMurtry. Though published third, it is chronologically first in the Lonesome Dove series. McMurtry wrote a final and fourth segment to the Lonesome Dove chronicle, Comanche Moon, which describes the events of Gus and Call's lives between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove. Dead Man's Walk details the earliest adventures of the young Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call as they join up with the Texas Rangers on a fictional expedition based loosely on the historical Santa Fe Expedition of 1841. In this first prequel to Lonesome Dove the reader finds McCrae and Call as young additions to the Texas Rangers. The two young Rangers are introduced quickly and brutally to the rangering life on their first expedition, in which they are stalked by the Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump. After a narrow escape, the rangers return to civilization, only to quickly join an expedition to capture and annex Sante Fe, part of New Mexico (the part east of the Rio Grande) for... less