Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, Book 3)

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It is a rather brutal episode, but the beauty of Gus’ friendship for Lorrie is breathtaking as are the two gunfights, particularly the first one. Follow the exploits of several members of the Texas Ranger Division from the time of the Republic of Texas up until the beginning of the 20th century. It is a western, based in the late 1800’s and has a stellar cast of diverse characters, but the two main men are Augustus Macrae and Captain Woodrow F.

The old dinner bell had lost its clapper, but Bolivar had found a crowbar that somebody had managed to break, and he laid into the bell so hard that you couldn't have heard the clapper if there had been one. The sun was still high, sulled in the sky like a mule, but Augustus had a keen eye for sun, and to his eye the long light from the west had taken on an encouraging slant.The subsequent three novels in his Lonesome Dove series were adapted as three more miniseries, earning eight more Emmy nominations. Some of the cattle were so weak the cowboys had to dismount, , pull their tails and shout at them to get up. Reminds me a bit of Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden (my all time favourite novel) and definitely up there with those two Steinbeck classics in terms of quality - a truly great American novel! It seems fitting that I began his definitive work, Pulitzer winning Lonesome Dove, on his birthday, June 3. Duvall and Lee Jones are absolutely splendid and there are more great lines here than in the last 7 Star Wars movies combined.

He'd rattle off five or six different questions and opinions, running them all together like so many unbranded cattle -- it made it hard to pick out one and think about it carefully and slowly, the only ways Pea Eye liked to think. Gus rides past several slaughter sites where it looks like “a whole herd had been wiped out, for a road of bones stretched far across the plain. The plot itself is wide-ranging, with several disconnected storylines gradually merging into climatic moments). The plot is full of incident and high excitement, the human stories are emotionally gripping and there is a lovely, wry humour throughout. A spiritual cousin of Lonesome Dove, The Son’s central character, the ruthless patriarch Eli McCullough, embodies the big themes about America’s westward expansion, and by extension, the formation of America herself.July Johnson - a sheriff in Fort Smith, Arkansas whose brother was mistakenly killed by Jake Spoon, thus explaining his presence, somewhat clandestine, in Texas.