DEAD MAN'S WALK

In this prequel to "Lonesome Dove" based on the book by Larry McMurtry, we find a young Woodrow Call and Augustus Macrae just starting out as Texas Rangers and beginning to become men. Gus and Call are young Rangers, ripe for adventure, and they get it with the Texas-Santa Fe expedition, an ill-conceived effort on the part of some freebooters and adventurers to capture Santa Fe and annex New Mexico. Led by the land pirate Caleb Cobb, and guided by the legendary Bigfoot Wallace and his mountain-man friend Shadrach, the group fights several engagements with the great Comanche warchief Buffalo Hump, is whittled down by the silent Apache, Gomez, and is captured without resistance by the Mexican army. Marched south by a resolute Mexican officer, Captain Salazar, they survive bear attacks, ice storms, and the rigors of the barren desert as the Jordana del Muerto.

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