Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, Book 3)

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The bug couldn't find its way out, but it could move around enough to upset the vaquero, who persuaded the young doctor to try and flush it. Left alone, she is abducted by an Indian bandit named Blue Duck, a notorious and mercilessly vicious old nemesis of the Texas Rangers. The dew quickly died, and the light that filled the bushes like red dust dispersed, leaving clear, slightly bluish air.

As the sun sank, the shade would gradually extend itself across the porch, the wagon yard, Hat Creek, Lonesome Dove and, eventually, the Rio Grande. The days in Lonesome Dove were a blur of heat and as dry as chalk, but mash whiskey took some of the dry away and made Augustus feel nicely misty inside -- foggy and cool as a morning in the Tennessee hills. It was obviously just pure luck that he himself hadn't been born a slave, but if he had been unlucky Lincoln would have freed him. I have read a number of different reviews; many of which discuss how long it took for them to get invested in the story. and I mean “interesting” in a good way) I haven’t read a collection of short stories in a really long time so I might have to check out the first one.In Santa Rosa, he discovers that Blue Duck has been captured by a sheriff's deputy and is about to be hanged. Gus is less enthusiastic, but changes his mind when reminded that the love of his life, Clara, lives on the Platte River near Ogallala, Nebraska, which would be on the route to Montana. They are longtime friends and former Texas Rangers one whose squad was also the somewhat dim hand Pea Eye Parker and the Mexican cook Bolivar. I kept wishing they would have stayed in Texas or at least stopped in Nebraska after so much they went through. Atrociously wicked and remorseless, he is feared across the plains as a ruthless murderer, rapist, and slaver.

Bolivar is uneasy about venturing far from the Rio Grande and abandons the cattle drive before it leaves Texas.This first episode ends with the cattle drive over the Nueces River and the first tragedy of many along the route. After a desperate crossing through the arid basins of Wyoming, the cattle drive arrives in Montana, which proves as lush and beautiful as Jake had described.