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Dead-Man's Walk may be the first, remarkable book in the legendary Lonesome Dove tetralogy, by which Larry McMurtry breathed fresh life in to the faded American West and produced two of the very memorable characters in contemporary fiction: Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae. As youthful Texas Rangers, Gus and Phone have much to understand about success in a land fraught with challenges: not just the high warmth and flaming tornadoes, roiling cruel Indians and streams but additionally the life-threatening vagaries of troopers. On the first trips--brought by inexperienced officials and supported by the strong, dauntless whore referred to as the Truly Amazing Western--they'll experience death in the hands of the crafty Comanche war chief Buffalo Difficulty and the quiet Apache Gomez. They'll be surprised by the Mexican military.