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Original Title:	Streets of Laredo
ISBN:	0684857537 (ISBN13: 9780684857534)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Lonesome Dove #2

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy. An exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, Streets of Laredo is classic Texas and Western literature at its finest.

Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker. This long chase leads them across the last wild stretches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier.

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Title	:	Streets of Laredo (Lonesome Dove #2)
Author	:	Larry McMurtry
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 547 pages
Published	:	October 17th 2000 by Simon Schuster (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Westerns. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

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This is the sequel to Lonesome Dove and it's almost as good. The only thing that really didn't work for me was that he didn't seem to have a firm fix on what was motivating Joey Garza.I found myself taking a meandering, slow journey through this book instead of rushing to finish it. His writing is very good and his characters are absolutely brilliant, with the aforementioned exception. In particular, McMurtry knows how to write women. You see so much these days about people wanting strong female

This is on my short list of books that I have read more than once. In fact I think I've read it 2 1/2 times. A few years ago I picked it up one day, opened it somewhere in the middle (maybe I was looking for a particular passage), started reading, and couldn't put it down for a couple of days until I finished it (for the third time). That's how much the book drew me into the story that McMurtry tells, and the magnificent way he tells it. I think he's a fabulous writer, the greatest I've read for

On the ride back across the gray plains, the young cowboy he was just twenty looked rather despondent. [Charles] Goodnight ignored his despondence for a while, then got tired of it. What did a healthy sprout of twenty have to be despondent about? Whats made you look so peaked, J.D.? Goodnight inquired. Why, its Captain Call, I guess, the young cowboy said. He was glad to talk about it, to get his feelings out. What about Captain Call? Goodnight asked. Why, wasnt he a great Ranger? the boy

As much as I enjoyed Lonesome Dove, that's how much I disliked Streets of Laredo. Larry McMurtry spent much of the earlier book demolishing the squeaky-clean John Wayne image of the Old West by showing it as realm of rape, sexual slavery, meaningless violence and random death, but he also showed the grandeur and beauty that drew men like Augustus McCrae. Gus is sorely missed in this novel, in which McMurtry seems perversely committed to focusing on the least interesting characters and reworking

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I love this kind of rambling storytelling where almost anything can happen and every character has a life of their own. Even the tough old cowboys and man hunters have feelings!

On the ride back across the gray plains, the young cowboy he was just twenty looked rather despondent. [Charles] Goodnight ignored his despondence for a while, then got tired of it. What did a healthy sprout of twenty have to be despondent about? Whats made you look so peaked, J.D.? Goodnight inquired. Why, its Captain Call, I guess, the young cowboy said. He was glad to talk about it, to get his feelings out. What about Captain Call? Goodnight asked. Why, wasnt he a great Ranger? the boy