He’s comical and laid back and he loves to drink. And they get along well enough despite being so different. Their job is to secure cattle and horses for determined clients, an objective they accomplish by sneaking into Mexico in the middle of the night and stealing all the cattle and horses they might need to satiate the needs of their clients.Ĭall and Gus have a relatively comfortable life in Lonesome Dove. The fight against the Indians and the Mexicans is over, and those few lingering tensions do not really appeal to the former captains.Ĭall and Gus have since set up the Hat Creek Cattle Company. Call and Augustus McCrea were Texas Rangers. It has been quite a while since Lonesome Dove saw any significant hostilities. The Civil War is finally over, and so is America’s conflict with Mexico which saw them annex a considerable portion of their enemies territory, this including Nevada and New Mexico. ‘Lonesome Dove’, the first book in the series, published in 1985, picks up in 1876 in a small town in South Texas called Lonesome Dove. But the characters around whom most of the novels revolve include Joshua Deets, Augustus Macrae, Jake Spoon, Woodrow F Call, Clara Forsythe Allen and Lorena Wood Parker to mention but a few.ĭespite a premise that sounds like the opening of an ordinary Western, the Lonesome Dove books are anything by ordinary, with Larry McMurtry weaving the sorts of complex plots and subplots that one rarely sees in the genre. The Lonesome Dove series has a large cast. The books follow the exploits of a group of former Texas Rangers as they try to carve out a life for themselves in the Old West. Lonesome Dove is a series of four novels written by Larry McMurtry.
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