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Comanche moon, which follows on from dead mans walk and prequels lonesome dove, follows gus and call 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, and showcases mcmurtry s strong affinity for the landscape and its. Larry jeff mcmurtry is not only a very good writer but a very good essayist, bookseller, screenwriter, and an extremely good novelist as well. Lonesome dove is the story of a cattle drive from far south texas through the central great plains and hostile indian country to virgin grazing land in montana. Larry mcmurtry later turned the lonesome dove script into a fulllength pulitzer prizewinning novel. The first edition can be identified by the following points. Mcmurtry was not involved in the production of this and he was not happy when cbs implied that he was a collaborator.
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