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In McMurtry's book. Reared back and crushed his chest with the pommel.

Son had no idea and I hate being the bearer of bad news.

Always wondered why McMurtry kilt Newt.

Newt was a well established "blank canvas".

ironic . iam watching Lonsome Dove on the grit channel right now

A pity, McMurty’s subsequent Western novels just degenerated into weirdness.

I really like his books but he sometimes had a poor grasp of historical details and yes, things got weird.

In one of his Lonesome Dove prequels, maybe Comanche Moon, he had Gus and Call shooting Indians or Mexicans (can’t remember which) with Winchesters….IN THE 1850s.

I agree. But they made a pretty good movie in Lonesome Dove.

I really enjoyed the books about Thalia (Archer City). They reminded me so much of small town life like experienced it and people I knew. When I read about Duane in Texasville, I pictured my uncle by marriage. And there were half a dozen other characters in that book that I almost knew what they were going to do before I read it because I knew people just like them.

*knucklepunch*

The kid crossing the river and bit by water moccasins was nasty nasty bunch of snakes.

Cash;
Good evening, almost tomorrow out your way no doubt by now, hopefully life goes well regardless.

In the mid '90's there was a TV series called Lonesome Dove which was filmed up in Alberta that went on an alternative route and had Newt live.

Linky thing.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108839/

I don't remember it as being as good as the original mini-series, but not terrible either.

As I recall now, it was somewhat better than the Streets of Laredo which had James Garner as an aging Woodrow Call or better said, I liked it better.

As Birdwatcher said, I did my best to read a couple more of the McMurtry books after reading and thoroughly enjoying Lonesome Dove, but they didn't connect with me in the same way.

I'll say too that I still have Lonesome Dove on my book shelves and the others are long, long gone.

All the best to you and the rest of the Lonesome Dove readers and watchers.

Dwayne

Yeah, McMurtry is a rather lacking in historical facts and timelines. It's been years ago, but I remember being dismayed with a pre-quil where he referred to a woman as being "the belle of Birmingham" and the plantation home overlooking the vast cotton fields there in Alabama. It's been a long time ago since I read this, but this was supposed to have been set in the 1850s. Two problems here: 1) Birmingham did not exist until sometime in the 1870s. I don't mean that it was not incorporated, I mean it did not exist. 2) There are and never have been cotton plantations in that area. It is somewhat mountainous and rocky. You could plant maybe a decent garden or a small corn or pea patch, but totally unsuitable for sizeable cotton fields. Plenty of timber.