Dead Man's Walk (novel)
''Dead Man's Walk'' is a 1995 Western fiction, Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the third book published in the Lonesome Dove series, ''Lonesome Dove'' series but the first installment in terms of chronology. McMurtry wrote a fourth segment to the ''Lonesome Dove'' chronicle, ''Comanche Moon'', which describes the events of the central characters' lives between ''Dead Man's Walk'' and ''Lonesome Dove''. The second novel in the ''Lonesome Dove'' series was the 1993 sequel to the original, called ''Streets of Laredo (novel), Streets of Laredo''. ''Dead Man's Walk'' was later adapted into a three-part miniseries Dead Man's Walk (miniseries), of the same name, which aired in May 1996. Plot summary In 1842, young Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call 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 civilizati ...
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Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas.Hugh Rawson
"Screenings," ''American Heritage'', April/May 2006. His novels included '' Horseman, Pass By'' (1962), '''' (1966), and '''' (1975), which were adapted into films. Films adapte ...
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