Larry McMurtry’s Dead Man’s Walk tells how the great Lonesome Dove saga fi rst began... Set in the Texas Republic in the early 1840’s, a time in which three cultures, Anglo, Hispanic and Comanche were in furious confl ict over the same harsh land, we are introduced to the two young rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, the heroes of LONESOME DOVE. Ripe for adventure, they go on an expedition under the leadership of land pirate and soldier Caleb Cobb. The rangers suff er at the hands of the treacherous leadership and soon encounter the Comanche war chief Buff alo Hump and the silent Apache, Gomez.