Will I love Dead Man's Walk?

An eccentric book for my reading, which turned out to be very inspiring and paradoxically helped me a lot to understand modern-day America. Larry McMurtry tells the story of a ramshackle group of rangers who, around 1840, attempt to open a new trail from San Antonio to Santa Fe. In such a wild and tremendously hostile territory, the locals, the terrible Comanches, try to oppose the advance of these new settlers, who in turn are completely unprepared to govern these lands. Nature is no less hostile than the native Comanches, and so in the first pages we encounter the fury… show more.

Dead Man’s Walk is the third book in the Lonesome Dove series. It is difficult for me to write a review because the book and film are part of my family story. Dead Man’s Walk is a true story inspired by McMurtry’s research into the failed Santa Fe Expedition of 1841. His fictional characters Matilda Jane Roberts, Gus McCrae, and Woodrow Call make a brutal story of humanity, a fun read. Most of the characters' names are fictitious, however, the Comanche Indian Chief named Buffalo Hump was real. His tribe in 1841 killed my great-great-great grandfather Thomas W. Smith and… show more.