Comanche Moon

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“Comanche Moon” by Larry McMurtry| a brilliant and haunting novel richly capable of standing on its own| completes the author’s epic four-volume cycle of novels of the American West that began in 1985 with the Pulitzer Prize — winning masterpiece| “Lonesome Dove.”
We join Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F.
Call in their middle years| just beginning to deal with the perplexing tensions of adult life — Gus and his great love| Clara Forsythe; Call and Maggie Tilton| the young whore who loves him — when they enlist with a 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.
Assisting the Rangers in their wild chase is the renowned Kickapoo tracker| Famous Shoes..
“Comanche Moon” joins the twenty-year time line between “Dead Man’s Walk” and “Lonesome Dove|” as we follow beloved heroes Gus and Call and their comrades-in-arms — Deets| Jake Spoon| and Pea Eye Parker — in their bitter struggle to protect an advancing Western frontier against the defiant Comanches| courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life.