Great Tale of Gus's and Call's Early Adventures!

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	• Dead Man's Walk : A Novel Larry McMurtry Simon & Schuster, 2000 - 464 pages average customer review:based on 81 reviews view larger image
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I have read 10 westerns by Larry McMurtry and all have the rich of the west and most true to life that I have encountered. In reading "Lonesome Dove" first, I have always wondered where Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call were from and, if any, of their early years. As true, as in the best, "Lonesome Dove", I have enjoyed the early saga of Gus and Woodrow; the lives they shared and that of being the early law as Texas Rangers. The raw courage of early lawmen were shown in their continuing to settle parts of the open range and the Westward movement. Their encounters of Buffalo Hump to Blue Duck only shows the courage to hunt and bring to order the lawless. In continued reading of Gus and Woodrow, and their meetings of Clara and Maggie, Woodrow fathering Newt, and Gus to never find out of his daughter, Augustina. In comparison to other Western wrighters, none can hold up to the interest and riviting adventures, as portrayed by Larry McMurtry, in that of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call. "Dead man's Walk" can only get 5 Stars, as that is the top of the chart!

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Great Tale of Gus's and Call's Early Adventures!

Exciting, interesting and great read setting the tone for the characters and personalities of two young Texas rangers who will become our friends as we follow them as maturing adults in later books. Realistic adventures and gripping moments!
Evelyn Horan - teacher/counselor/author
Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl, Books One - Four

Desert Survival and Obligatory Violence

Like me, you may enjoy reading Dead Man's Walk because it places you in the desert of west Texas with this rag tag bunch of wanna-be rangers and their friends, trying to keep body and soul together, with no friendly outposts for hundreds of miles. You are subject to all that the wilderness has in store.

The Indians are smart and ruthless, knowing how to survive in the dry desert. But the rangers are as reckless as a bunch of Americans taming the world; they're prone to mistakes that can be quite funny. Then at some point, you realize that each mistake and stroke of misfortune adds up to an outcome from which there is no turning back.

By the end of the book, I knew there was too much violence in it for me. A lot of it unnecessary. The worst is when the rangers think they had found a friend in a Spanish commando and instead they are destined to be the evening's entertainment. My favorite character is killed off.

As a consolation, or to make things even crazier, McMurty treats us to a dramatic and tragically funny scene at the end, in which a grand, leperous woman helps the rangers fend off an old Indian chief enemy by placing the fear of "the gods" in him.

Fiction often seems written with the lucrative movie contract in mind these days. I would caution you on this book, desert "non-survival" dominated by obligatory violence.

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Good Story

This was a good story. After reading Lonesome Dove, it was interesting to read about some of the background that led up to it.

I really enjoyed this story. The only thing that might have made it any better would be if I didn't know that Gus and Call had to survive the Walk because they were in Lonesome Dove.

While this is still not in the same class as Lonesome Dove, it was definitely worth reading.

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