02379cam a2200337 i 4500 623788990 TxAuBib 20000723120000.0 971027s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97029609 9780684807546 0684807548 (OCoLC)37300796 TXKPL eng rda TXKPL TxAuBib rda McMurtry, Larry. Comanche moon : a novel / Larry McMurtry. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997. 752 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Final volume of the Lonesome Dove Saga. 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. At once realistic and yet vividly imagined, Comanche Moon is a giant of a book - written by one of America's most honored and distinguished novelists - and the keystone to a mighty achievement of storytelling, unparalleled for its sweep, its meticulous re-creation of the past, its sheer energy, and its celebration of life: an epic adventure full of heroism, tragedy, cruelty, courage, honor and betrayal, and the culmination of Larry McMurtry's peerless vision of the American West. 20000723. Texas Rangers Fiction. Comanche Indians Fiction. Western stories. Fiction. TXKPL