Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, Book 3)

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From the author of The Last Picture Show and Texasville – here is Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece. Roscoe Brown – The deputy sheriff of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Roscoe is a simple man in his 40s who is content to spend his life minding the sleepy town's jail, but is bullied by July's sister-in-law into tracking down the sheriff and his missing wife. McMurtry doesn't shy away from depicting the tragedies and sacrifices that come with such a rugged lifestyle, leaving a lasting impact on the reader.

He didn't work unless he had to, and yet he could sit down night after night and out-eat three men who had put in a day's labor.Blue Duck – The son of Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump and his Mexican captive, Blue Duck leads a gang of renegade Indians and Caucasian criminals. Even when he was just sitting quietly, studying his cards, the lip waved and wiggled as if it had a breeze blowing across it. As the outfit navigate their way across thousands of inhospitable miles without gps or weather forecasts, they are under constant threat from In You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. My 1980s paperback version was 943 pages and the last time I could remember reading a book that long was when I went through a Michener phase over 20 years ago.

The writing style is relatively simple linear narrative with little if any simile, metaphor or detailed naturalistic description (unlike Faulkner, F Norris, Ralph Ellison, James Cooper, Stephan Crane, Melville etc whom I’ve read) – that said if it had it would have been 3 times as long.The man never wasted five minutes appreciating himself; it would have meant losing five minutes off whatever job he had decided he wanted to get done that day.

He is an exceptional tracker who relies on his phenomenal instincts to lead the company out of harm's way. On the trail, the men of the Hat Creek Cattle Company have to contend with ornery cattle, wild rivers, and sudden storms, not to mention a fearsome desperado named Blue Duck. I know they brought you over when you was still draggin' on the tit, but that don't make you no less a Scot. A carefree persona happy to sit back with a glass of whiskey and a deck of cards, McCrae would rather be outside a saloon in Lonesome Dove than on a two thousand mile journey north.

The old dinner bell had lost its clapper, but Bolivar had found a crowbar that somebody had managed to break, and he laid into the bell so hard that you couldn't have heard the clapper if there had been one. This was such a surprisingly wonderful read, well beyond the traditional stereotypes of westerns with realistic, lovable (and hateful) characters and an incredible scenario. Dillard had always talked too much, but after the trouble with the centipedes, what he did was whisper too much.