Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() One thing that makes the book so good is the sheer sweep of the plot. It certainly is the best of Larry McMurtry's, and he has written good ones before. It happens instead to be the start of one of the best westerns I have ever read. Turn the key, and the clockwork figures will start shooting, drinking, roping cows, whoring. ![]() This could be the beginning of any number of western novels. There's other company in Lonesome Dove as well: an exceptionally beautiful (and morose) whore named Lorena, a piano player named Lippy with a hole in his stomach, an independent young widow named Mary Cole, and so on. There's also a small crew: Pea Eye, a former corporal in the Rangers Bolivar, a former Mexican bandit turned cook Deets, a black cowboy and the best tracker in Texas and Newt, a 17- year-old boy. Traffic both ways is brisk.)Ĭall, though a compulsive worker, doesn't do everything on the ranch himself. (Sometimes they are merely reclaiming stock which Pedro Flores, the fierce hacienda owner to the south, had previously crossed the river to steal in Texas. Gus McCrae mainly loafs around the ranchhouse with a whiskey jug, though he does participate in night raids into Mexico to steal horses and cattle. These days they are running a combination ranch and livery stable - or at least Call is. In it, somewhere around the year 1880, live two former captains in the Texas Rangers: Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae. ![]() LONESOME DOVE is a very small Texas town, right on the Mexican border. ![]()
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