![]() ![]() The taciturn, work dedicated Call is begged for some sacking by his friend Gus, a romantic idler who was too busy in a whore's tent before their dispatch to do much else but put on his pants.Īlerted to the rangers is the Comanche chief Buffalo Hump, a feared warrior whose oldest son was shot and killed by Call in the Brazos River, earning the ranger the name Gun-in-the-Water. In pursuit of the notorious Comanche horse thief Kicking Wolf, the men are instructed to cover the heads of their horses with sacking to keep the eyelids of their mounts from freezing. The epic begins with the company cold, tired and dejected, pressing through sleet on the Llano Estacado under the command of Captain Inish Scull, a tough, adventurous Yankee nicknamed Old Nails due to his habit of picking his teeth with a horseshoe nail. The writing is superlative, while the necessity of the book and its length are self-indulgent, which may be exactly what hungry fans wanted. ![]() His protagonists-Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call-are serving in a company of Texas Rangers charged with protecting settlers along the Rio Grande from Mexican bandits and those on the plains from the Comanche Indians. Published in 1997, a tone of finality is absent due to the story taking place fifteen to twenty years before the events of McMurtry's magnum opus. ![]() Comanche Moon is the fourth and final entry in a franchise spun from Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning western Lonesome Dove. ![]()
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