num_pages: 528
description: The first of Larry McCurtry's Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove tetralogy, showcasing McCurtry's talent for breathing new life into the vanished American West through two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short) have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with 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.
language: English
title: Dead Man's Walk
titlecomplete: Dead Man's Walk (Lonesome Dove, 1)
characters: Captain Woodrow Call, Augustus "Gus" McCrae
genres: Fiction, Classics, Novels, Historical, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Audiobook
ratings_count: 16963
series: Lonesome Dove
publisher: Pocket Books