Everyone has their own motivations for what they do and no one's perfect. The characters are treated and developed with care and respect and we see things from their respective perspectives. No matter how much you want to cling to the past things change and you can either change too or fade away into history. The Lonesome Dove Series is a must-read for fans of the western genre and Comanche Moon acts as a tribute to the transition from the old ways to the new. We also find out about what happens to Long Bill Coleman, who made his way through the torment of the death march in Dead Man's Walk, and Clara Forsythe, who Gus will always pine for.
Call, McCrae, Pea Eye, Deets, Newt, and many more characters are all there and we finally get to see the evolution of Call's relationship with Maggie, the whore whose son Call won't claim. The book mainly focuses on the perspective of the Comanche people while forwarding the character-driven work he started in the previous entry. Inish finds out how harsh the frontier really is when he finally finds out what happened to his horse.
He knows the land and helps Inish Scull when his exceptionally large horse is stolen by the infamous horse thief Kicking Wolf. He leaves for days on end but always comes back with interesting information. Famous shoes is a Kickapoo tracker who never rides a horse and yet somehow is always ahead of the Rangers he is tracking for. Assisting the Rangers in their wild chase is the renowned Kickapoo tracker, Famous Shoes.Ĭomanche 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.On the other side of the fence, we get to meet the incomparable Captain Inish Scull and the eccentric 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. The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comanche Moon takes us once again into the world of the American West.
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