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Average rating4.1
Two Texas Rangers fight Indians and bandits while trying to sort affairs with their women. One is Gus McCrae, a hard-drinking womanizer jilted by his love, the other is sober Woodrow Call, father of a boy by a prostitute.
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4 primary booksLonesome Dove is a 4-book series with 4 released primary works first released in 1985 with contributions by Larry McMurtry.
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I feel really conflicted about giving this book a star rating because of its level of violence - it's extreme towards women and that between the Texas Rangers and the indigenous peoples of Texas and Mexico. That being said, was a lot of it likely based on historical fact, yes.
The best part of the book is not just the continuance of Gus and Call's lives, personal and as now Captains of the Texas Rangers, but also the end of eras for the natives and the Rangers. The book ends just as modernity's door cracks open leaving everyone on the precipice.