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Dead Man's Walk |  | Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 21584
Media: Paperback
Pages: 464
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0684857545
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780684857541
ASIN: 0684857545
Publication Date: October 17, 2000
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Amazon.com Review
In this prequel to McMurtry's 1986 Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are invincible young bucks, Texas Rangers, full of youthful energy and, quite frankly, full of themselves. That is until they're utterly consumed by the vicious battlefield of the early-19th-century Wild West. Their journey takes them across barren deserts and raging rivers and through steep and snowy mountains, often on foot and with barely enough provisions and clothing to keep them from certain death. The constant threat of attack by Comanches keeps them awake nights, fearing for their lives--and for good reason. "Buffalo Hump reached down and grabbed the terrified boy by his long black hair. He yanked his horse to a stop, lifted Zeke Moody off his feet, and slashed at his head with a knife, just above the boy's ears. Then he whirled and raced across the front of the huddled Rangers, dragging Zeke by the hair. As the horse increased its speed, the scalp tore loose and Zeke fell free. Buffalo Hump had whirled again, and held aloft the bloody scalp." This bedraggled group of adventurers--on their foolhardy expedition to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans (who also prove to be formidable enemies)--includes a salty assortment of cowboys, scouts, fortune seekers, and a fat and sassy whore nicknamed "The Great Western." McMurtry's adept storytelling paints a portrait of the Wild West that at times is palpable. One can almost smell the campfires, the body odors, and the long-awaited piece of meat after weeks without a proper meal. Dead Man's Walk will satisfy your craving for adventure, without having to put your life on the line.
Product Description
Dead Man's Walk is the first, extraordinary book in the epic Lonesome Dove tetralogy, in which Larry McMurtry breathed new life into the vanished American West and created two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call. As young Texas Rangers, Gus and Call 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.
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 Good Western for people who don't like Westerns August 3, 2010
Sara A. Pauff
The first Western I've probably ever read (I don't think Little House on the Prairie counts). It was pretty good; I liked the characters. I might read more of the Lonesome Dove series if I come across them.
Good Story Despite the Writing July 26, 2010
Kenneth Mark Hoover (Allen, TX USA)
I am not a big McMurtry fan because of his writing. He switches POV all the time and I have yet to read one of his books that couldn't have benefited cut about 20,000 words or more.
Even with that Dead Man's Walk is a pretty solid read. It's episodic, like the other Gus and Woodrow novels I've read, full of violence and humor and pathos....these are his trademark and he does it pretty well, right down to the surrealistic ending. This is the book that purports to be the first in the series, even though it was written after Lonesome Dove. That's okay, the book is still fun (for the most part) and if you like the characters from the previous novels you will definitely like them here, too, as they begin their work for the Texas Rangers.
Not the best and not the worst I've read from McMurtry, but still memorable...and in a good way. Check it out.
 This is not the same person that wrote "Lonesome Dove!" May 21, 2010
R. Marconi (Lodi, CA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I finished this book only because I had started it and somehow expected it to improve down the line. After reading "Lonesome Dove" I had expected a read at least approaching that of the original of the series. What a disappointment. The writing is almost amateurish. I do not believe L.M. wrote this book, but he obviously put his name on it. Buy at your own risk!
Dead Man's Walk, Reading Man's Hassle May 6, 2010
Dr. Cardinal (Free of the Mountains!!!!!)
This is the first episode in the lives of Call and Gus. It was intended to tell those who loved Lonesome Doves how the duo met, and what forged their friendship. That was the intent. What happens in this book, though, is that you exposed too much effort to explain things we already know from previously published books. There are just too many attempts to explain things that just popped up in the Lonesome Dove. I mean all that was missing was some attempt to include Laurie's parents. Well written, but very boring and tedious at points.
 Nice read, exciting characters April 5, 2010
J. D. Shilling
Finally saw the Lonesome Dove mini-series and loved it.
I looked into the book and decided to get the whole series and read them in the story's chronological order.
Dead's Man Walk, the first in the series, was a good introduction to the 2 main characters as they begin their stints as Texas Rangers.
I really liked the character development of Gus and Woodrow as well as the main Comanche characters.
Their were not a lot of glimpses into the Comanche psyche, and who knows if the picture painted was accurate, but it was fascinating.
The brutality on both sides was refreshing to read, no white washing here.
Everyone feels their side is right and all the other sides are barbaric, classic.
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