The four Lonesome Dove books, in order of events, were Dead Man’s Walk, Comanche Moon, Lonesome Dove, and Streets of Laredo. I think I’ll reread them before long; it’s been a few years.
“The four Lonesome Dove books, in order of events, were Dead Man’s Walk, Comanche Moon, Lonesome Dove, and Streets of Laredo. I think I’ll reread them before long; it’s been a few years.”
Wow! Thanks so much for refreshing my (admittedly old) memory. I think I read all of those books years ago. “Streets of Laredo” may have been my favorite after Lonesome Dove. For if I recall correctly that was the one with the train-controlling and robbing bad guy who finally got his just desserts, but only after killing a good guy that I really had emotionally become invested in admiring and assuming would be the hero. (Or, I may be mixing up my western novels and inserting some old John Wayne movies in my memories).
These books were western classics way before anyone even knew what was happening on the other side of the nation. During the books time-frame, newspapers were not delivered daily to your front door and it would take weeks if not months for reports of conflicts in the west even reached the eastern part of the U.S.
That’s one thing that ticks me off about new-sites reporting of issues that happened 40 or more years ago, and especially the events of or 50 years ago or longer. They write articles about long ago issues as if people had instant access to information and were faulty for not expressing immediate outrage for events most people didn’t learn about until weeks or even months later.
The media will publish articles on an historical event and ad a sentence to the effect that “no one in the white communities responded, rescued, or even mentioned [whoever] thus exhibiting their white supremacy”. When reading such diatribes, I’m thinking to myself “You dumba^^, no one on the other side of the country learned of that event until months later!”