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. He lived in Archer City, Texas.Comanche Moon is the fourth and final entry in a franchise spun from Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning western Lonesome Dove. Review Quotes McMurtry is one of our finest storytellers, and hes at his best here.-Kyle Smith, People About the Author Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. Comanche Moon closes the twenty-year gap between Dead Mans Walk and Lonesome Dove, following beloved heroes Gus and Call and their comrades in arms - Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker - in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life. Assisting the Rangers in their wild chase is the renowned Kickapoo tracker, Famous Shoes. Two proud but very different men, they enlist with the Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief and a deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for torture. Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow Call, now in their middle years, continue to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life - Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe, and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him. Book Synopsis THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtrys Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comache Moon takes us once again into the world of the American West. About the Book The novel that joins the time lapse between Dead Mans Walk and Lonesome Dove-the final volume of the saga.

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