Lonesome Dove: Dead Man's Walk

The Prequel to Lonesome Dove: Love, Fear, and Sacrifice on the Untamed Frontier.

Taking you deep into the heart of the American West, Dead Man’s Walk is the first book in Larry McMurtry’s epic Lonesome Dove quartet.

These are the wild days when Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call—the legendary heroes of Lonesome Dove—first encounter the untamed frontier that will form their characters. Not yet twenty, Gus and Call enlist as Texas Rangers for a perilous expedition to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans.

The two young men experience their first great adventure in the barren, empty landscape of the great plains, where arbitrary violence is the only law. Danger, sacrifice, and fear test Gus and Call to the limits of endurance as they seek the strength and courage to survive against almost insurmountable odds in early nineteenth-century America.

McMurtry has crafted a tale of deep humanity and sacrifice in the face of Wild West adversity.