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A bloated, pointlessseeming prequel to 1985s bestselling lonesome dove. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. As young texas rangers, gus and call have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils. Larry mcmurtry is an american author and screenwriter of novels set in the west. Matilda roberts was thinking that she was farther from california than everbut at least she had money in her pocket.