July Johnson is dead, and Clara lives alone. Call has finally admitted to himself that Newt was his son. Newt is dead, fallen on by the Hell Bitch. The cattle ranch (set up by the Hat Creek outfit in Montana) has collapsed. Pea Eye is thoroughly devoted to Lorena, and Lorena has learned to reciprocate and become almost equally attached to Pea Eye. They have several children, and own a farm in the Texas Panhandle. Lorena, lover of Gus McCrae, has left Clara and married Pea Eye Parker, of the former Hat Creek Outfit. He then rewrote it as the original Lonesome Dove.īetween Lonesome Dove and Streets of Laredoīetween the events of the two books, quite a bit has happened. The title was originally used by Larry McMurtry for a screenplay that he wrote with Peter Bogdanovich, but which never materialized as a movie. Streets of Laredo takes its name from a famous cowboy ballad. It was later made into a television miniseries of the same name starring James Garner as Captain Call. Call as he tracks a Mexican bandit who is preying on the railroad. The book follows the adventures of Captain Woodrow F. It was adapted into a television miniseries in 1995. It is the second book published in the Lonesome Dove series, but the fourth and final book chronologically. Streets of Laredo is a 1993 western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry.
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