The decade from the late 1850's to the late 1860's, when the novel takes place, is a period of relentless white settlement interrupted by the four-year hiatus of the Civil War, and as it proceeds Buffalo Hump sees his future all too clearly. Go out in the field and make it,'' the rangers are still facing the formidable opponent they first encountered in ''Dead Man's Walk,'' a fierce Comanche named Buffalo Hump. Inish Scull, a Harvard scholar who ''saw no reason to be teaching military history when he could ''Comanche Moon'' finds the affable McCrae and taciturn Call at the height of their powers - and they need to be. Popular ''Lonesome Dove'' series) is a colorful adventure that fills the gap between the green days of Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, seen as young Texas Rangers in the novel ''Dead Man's Walk,''Īnd their sunset years, depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning ''Lonesome Dove.''
And he doesn't look to be quitting any time soon: his latest book (which is being billed as the final volume in his enormously N the years since Larry McMurtry's first novel, ''Horseman, Pass By,'' was made into the movie ''Hud,'' he has created aīody of work almost as large and cinematically picturesque as the Texas landscape that is his favorite setting. More on Larry McMurtry, from The New York Times Archives Woodrow Call and the Texas Rangers are back, in the final volume of Larry McMurtry's popular series.
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