- Fiction, Texas Rangers, Comanche Indians, Woodrow Call (Fictitious character)
Two Texas Rangers fight Indians and bandits while trying to sort affairs with their women. One is Gus McCrae, a hard-drinking womanizer jilted by his love, the other is sober Woodrow Call, father of a boy by a prostitute.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and nostalgic.
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- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Larry McMurtry
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 752
- Publisher
- Orion Books, Simon & Schuster, Pocket
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780752809397
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“CAPTAIN INISH SCULL liked to boast that he had never been thwarted in pursuit-as he liked to put it-of a felonious foe, whether Spanish, savage, or white.”
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