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The first prequel in Larry McMurtry’s beloved Lonesome Dove series features the early adventures of Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction. As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short)...

The acclaimed sequel to Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic Lonesome Dove, and the culmination of the legendary western saga, follows the further adventures of these beloved characters as they reckon with their past choices and uncertain futures in the rapidly changing American...

In this brilliant saga—the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right—Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with “wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second prequel, following Dead Man’s Walk, to Larry McMurtry’s classic novel Lonesome Dove charts the harrowing careers of Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call as they fight foes throughout the Texas territory and their own demons, setting up the events...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry returns to the Old West in a fast-moving, comic tale about a woman determined to conquer anything that stands in the way of an ultimate confrontation with her wayward husband. In his first historical novel in ten years, Larry McMurtry introduces Mary...

In this tale of high-spirited and terrifying adventure, set against the background of the West that Larry McMurtry has made his own, By Sorrow’s River is an epic in its own right with the return of the formidable, young Tasmin Berrybender. At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga...

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fiction Narrator The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last...

The second volume in Larry McMurtry's four-part historical epic featuring the Berrybender family as they continue their journey through the West during the 1830s. In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored Wild...

Audie Award, Literary Fiction, 2016. The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives, and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp.

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the first in a four-volume epic journey through the early American frontier, featuring the Berrybender family, English nobility adrift in the American West in the 1830s. It is 1830, and the Berrybender family—rich, aristocratic, English...

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Solo Narration—Female and Finalist for Fiction, Unabridged From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright. When...

Full of adventure, grace, and tragedy, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana tell the story of two powerful Cherokee warriors searching for the future of Indian Territory. Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors—two proud, passionate men whose...

In uno sputo di paese al confine fra il Texas e il Messico, Augustus McCrae e Woodrow Call, due dei più grandi e scapestrati ranger che il West abbia conosciuto, hanno cambiato vita: convertiti al commercio di bestiame, ammazzano il tempo come possono. Augustus beve whiskey sotto il portico e gioca a carte al Dry Bean, mentre Call lavora sodo dall'alba al tramonto e continua a dare ordini a Pea Eye, Deets e al giovane Newt. La guerra civile è finita da un pezzo e la sera, sul Rio Grande, non si incontrano né Comanche né banditi messicani, ma solo armadilli e capre spelacchiate.

À Lonesome Dove, Texas, les héros sont fatigués. Augustus McCrae et Woodrow Call ont remisé leurs armes après de longues années passées à combattre les Comanches. En cette année 1880, pourtant, l'aventure va les rattraper lorsqu'ils décident de voler du bétail au Mexique et de le convoyer jusque dans le Montana pour y établir un ranch. Commence alors un immense périple à travers l'Ouest, au cours duquel le convoi affrontera de violentes tempêtes, des bandes de tueurs et d'Indiens rebelles... et laissera de nombreux hommes derrière lui.

La première partie de Lonesome Dove nous a entraînés à la suite d'Augustus McCrae et Woodrox Call, illustres ex-Texas Rangers, sur la route dangereuse du Montana, là où, dit-on, les terres sont encore à qui les prend. De nombreuses épreuves attendent le convoi lors de cet extraordinaire périple à travers l'Ouest. Les hommes devront tour à tour affronter des éléments déchaînés, des pillards et leurs propres démons. Au bout de cette piste longue et périlleuse, beaucoup manqueront à l'appel.

La plupart des voleurs de trains sont pas malins, et c'est une chance pour les compagnies de chemins de fer. À eux seuls, cinq bandits pas trop idiots pourraient braquer tous les trains de ce pays. Ainsi parle Woodrow Call, ancien capitaine des Texas Rangers reconverti en chasseur de primes. Engagé pour éliminer Joey Garza, un dangereux criminel mexicain plus futé que les autres, il sillonne les étendues arides du Texas en compagnie d'une équipe hétéroclite. Mais l'Ouest héroïque n'est plus ce qu'il était ; la Frontière se referme, le pays se civilise et Call a vieilli. 

Aux confins d'un Texas encore sauvage, les jeunes Augustus McCrae et Woodrow Call viennent de s'engager pour faire régner un semblant d'ordre dans ce pays en devenir. Sous-équipés, piètrement entraînés et mal dirigés, ils s'apprêtent à traverser une série d'expéditions et d'aventures plus dangeureuses les unes que les autres. Tour à tour poursuivis par des Indiens, l'armée mexicaine ou des ours, ils devront se battre au milieu d'une nature hostile. Heureusement que les femmes sont là pour les laisser rêver à des jours meilleurs.

À la frontière du Mexique, le Texas n'est qu'un désert hostile où se risquent quelques rares colons. Pour les protéger, Gus et Call, Texas rangers mal équipés et sous-payés, officient sous les ordres du fantasque capitaine Scull. Le danger est partout : face à eux, le puissant chef comanche Buffalo Hump prouve que son peuple est loin d'être asservi, tandis que de l'autre côté de la frontière, Ahumado, mystérieux brigand expert en embuscades, sème la terreur. 

As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them. Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas only a mile from Highway 281, Larry McMurtry...

Tutti sono stati giovani, anche Gus e Call, gli induriti venditori di bestiame protagonisti di Lonesome Dove. A quell'epoca, gli anni Quaranta dell'Ottocento, le praterie a ovest di San Antonio erano ancora selvagge e dominate dagli indiani. Dunque chi meglio di due ragazzi sbandati e un po' ingenui per rimpolpare la compagnia di Texas Ranger in partenza per El Paso? Un fucile, un cavallo, la promessa di una paga e si va. Ma in giro c'è Buffalo Hump, l'abile e brutale capo comanche, e il battesimo della strada si celebra con il sangue.