Dead Man's Walk
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Dead Man's Walk is a 1995 novel by Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove. It is the first book chronologically in the Lonesome Dove series and was adapted for television. It follows Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call as young Texas Rangers in the early 1840s. They join expeditions against the Comanche and toward Santa Fe, face the war chief Buffalo Hump, are captured and marched across the deadly desert known as the Jornada del Muerto.
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