To Hunter of the Wolf, a Comanche, Loretta Simpson, the daughter of white settlers, is destined to him by. "McMurtry is one of our finest storytellers, and he's at his best here."-Kyle Smith, PeopleĪbout the Author Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. Comanche Moon Book Summary and Study Guide. Comanche Moon closes the twenty-year gap between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, following beloved heroes Gus and Call and their comrades in arms - Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker - in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life. Assisting the Rangers in their wild chase is the renowned Kickapoo tracker, Famous Shoes. Two proud but very different men, they enlist with the Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief and a deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for torture. Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow Call, now in their middle years, continue to deal with the ever-increasing tensions of adult life - Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe, and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him. About the Book The novel that joins the time lapse between "Dead Man's Walk" and "Lonesome Dove"-the final volume of the saga.īook Synopsis THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comache Moon takes us once again into the world of the American West.
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