Dead Man's Walk
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Dead Man's Walk is a novel by Larry McMurtry. Though published third, it is chronologically first in the Lonesome Dove series.
Dead Man's Walk details the earliest adventures of the young Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call as they join up with the Texas Ranger on the Santa Fe Expedition.
In this first prequel to Lonesome Dove the reader finds McCrae and Call as young additions to the Texas Rangers. The two young rangers are introduced quickly and brutally to the rangering life on their first expedition, in which they are stalked by the Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump. After a narrow escape, the rangers return to civilization, only to quickly join an expedition to capture and annex Sante Fe, part of New Mexico (the part east of the Rio Grande) for Texas. The expedition, led by pirate and soldier of fortune Caleb Cobb, is ultimately a failure; of the 200 initial adventurers, only about 40 survive, falling to starvation, bears, and Indians (in one memorable chapter, the Comanche fire...
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