Taking you deep into the heart of the American West,
Dead Man's Walk is the first book in
Larry McMurtry
's
Lonesome Dove quartet.
These are the wild days when Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call - heroes of Lonesome Dove - first encounter the untamed frontier that will form their characters.
Not yet twenty, Gus and Call enlist as Texas Rangers under the command of Caleb Cobb, a capricious outlaw determined to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans. The two young men experience their first great adventure in the barren, empty landscape of the great plains, in which arbitrary violence is the only law - whether from nature, or from those whose territory they must cross in order to reach New Mexico.
Danger, sacrifice and fear test Gus and Call to the limits of endurance, as they seek the strength and courage to survive against almost insurmountable odds in the West of early nineteenth-century America.
Continue the series set in the Wild West with
Comanche Moon
.
Now part of the
Picador Collection
, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.
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.