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Quando il famigerato ladro di cavalli comanche Kicking Wolf gli ruba l'instancabile Hector, un cavallo cosí poderoso da essere reputato magico, il capitano Inish Scull decide di inseguirlo a piedi, affidando il comando della compagnia di Texas Ranger a Woodrow Call e Gus McCrae. Mentre la caccia al ladro conduce l'impulsivo Scull a un durissimo scontro di volontà con il Black Vaquero, il bandito piú efferato del Messico, i neopromossi capitani si trovano per la prima volta ad avere la responsabilità della vita dei loro uomini.

Tutti sono stati giovani, anche Gus e Call, gli induriti venditori di bestiame protagonisti di Lonesome Dove. A quell'epoca, gli anni Quaranta dell'Ottocento, le praterie a ovest di San Antonio erano ancora selvagge e dominate dagli indiani. Dunque chi meglio di due ragazzi sbandati e un po' ingenui per rimpolpare la compagnia di Texas Ranger in partenza per El Paso? Un fucile, un cavallo, la promessa di una paga e si va. Ma in giro c'è Buffalo Hump, l'abile e brutale capo comanche, e il battesimo della strada si celebra con il sangue.

In uno sputo di paese al confine fra il Texas e il Messico, Augustus McCrae e Woodrow Call, due dei più grandi e scapestrati ranger che il West abbia conosciuto, hanno cambiato vita: convertiti al commercio di bestiame, ammazzano il tempo come possono. Augustus beve whiskey sotto il portico e gioca a carte al Dry Bean, mentre Call lavora sodo dall'alba al tramonto e continua a dare ordini a Pea Eye, Deets e al giovane Newt. La guerra civile è finita da un pezzo e la sera, sul Rio Grande, non si incontrano né Comanche né banditi messicani, ma solo armadilli e capre spelacchiate.

Antonio D'Orrico Texas, ultimo scampolo dell'Ottocento. Gli infiniti spazi aperti su cui scorrazzavano le grandi mandrie del West sono ora solcati dai binari dei treni, e su quei treni viaggiano merci preziose che i banditi possono rubare. Per fermarne uno astuto e spietato come Joey Garza serve «il piú famoso Texas Ranger di tutti i tempi». Il capitano Woodrow Call è di nuovo in sella e, affiancato da compagni vecchi e nuovi, deve affrontare la piú insidiosa delle sfide: quella contro il tempo.

Capricciosa, dispotica e tranchant: così è Aurora Greenway, vedova quarantanovenne di Houston, in Texas. In compenso ha capelli stupendi e un corpo che mantiene sodo cucinando in modo sopraffino e mangiando di gusto. Gli spasimanti, quindi, non le mancano, ma come scegliere tra il vicepresidente di banca impacciato, la vecchia fiamma sentimentale e il vicino che la spia con il binocolo, quando lei stessa sa che "solo un santo riuscirebbe a vivere con me, e io non riuscirei a vivere con un santo?"

The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness. Journey to the dusty little town...

Audie Award, Literary Fiction, 2016. The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives, and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp.

À Lonesome Dove, Texas, les héros sont fatigués. Augustus McCrae et Woodrow Call ont remisé leurs armes après de longues années passées à combattre les Comanches. En cette année 1880, pourtant, l'aventure va les rattraper lorsqu'ils décident de voler du bétail au Mexique et de le convoyer jusque dans le Montana pour y établir un ranch. Commence alors un immense périple à travers l'Ouest, au cours duquel le convoi affrontera de violentes tempêtes, des bandes de tueurs et d'Indiens rebelles... et laissera de nombreux hommes derrière lui.

In this tale of high-spirited and terrifying adventure, set against the background of the West that Larry McMurtry has made his own, By Sorrow’s River is an epic in its own right with the return of the formidable, young Tasmin Berrybender. At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the first in a four-volume epic journey through the early American frontier, featuring the Berrybender family, English nobility adrift in the American West in the 1830s. It is 1830, and the Berrybender family—rich, aristocratic, English...

The second volume in Larry McMurtry's four-part historical epic featuring the Berrybender family as they continue their journey through the West during the 1830s. In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored Wild...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second prequel, following Dead Man’s Walk, to Larry McMurtry’s classic novel Lonesome Dove charts the harrowing careers of Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call as they fight foes throughout the Texas territory and their own demons, setting up the events...

The first prequel in Larry McMurtry’s beloved Lonesome Dove series features the early adventures of Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction. As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short)...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry returns to the Old West in a fast-moving, comic tale about a woman determined to conquer anything that stands in the way of an ultimate confrontation with her wayward husband. In his first historical novel in ten years, Larry McMurtry introduces Mary...

As he crisscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- Larry McMurtry shares his fascination with this nation's great trails and the culture that has developed around them. Ever since he was a boy growing up in Texas only a mile from Highway 281, Larry...

In this brilliant saga—the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right—Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with “wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait...

In 1999, Larry McMurtry, whose wanderlust had been previously restricted to the roads of America, set off for a trip to the paradise of Tahiti and the South Sea Islands in an old-fashioned tub of a cruise boat, at a time when his mother was slipping toward a paradise of her own. Opening up to...

Aux confins d'un Texas encore sauvage, les jeunes Augustus McCrae et Woodrow Call viennent de s'engager pour faire régner un semblant d'ordre dans ce pays en devenir. Sous-équipés, piètrement entraînés et mal dirigés, ils s'apprêtent à traverser une série d'expéditions et d'aventures plus dangeureuses les unes que les autres. Tour à tour poursuivis par des Indiens, l'armée mexicaine ou des ours, ils devront se battre au milieu d'une nature hostile. Heureusement que les femmes sont là pour les laisser rêver à des jours meilleurs.

À la frontière du Mexique, le Texas n'est qu'un désert hostile où se risquent quelques rares colons. Pour les protéger, Gus et Call, Texas rangers mal équipés et sous-payés, officient sous les ordres du fantasque capitaine Scull. Le danger est partout : face à eux, le puissant chef comanche Buffalo Hump prouve que son peuple est loin d'être asservi, tandis que de l'autre côté de la frontière, Ahumado, mystérieux brigand expert en embuscades, sème la terreur.

Surrounded by his children, who all seem to be going through life crises, and his wife, who is wrestling with her own demons, small-town Texas local Duane Moore can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. To the perplexity of his family and friends, he ditches his pickup, starts walking everywhere, and moves to a crude shack six miles out of town. But his attempts to go off the grid are far from successful, and he struggles with increasing depression.