


Danger, sacrifice, comradeship, and love give them the strength and courage to survive against the almost insurmountable odds of the frontier.In "Dead Man's Walk, " Gus and Call are not yet twenty, young men coming of age in the days when Texas was still an independent republic. We also meet Clara Forsythe, the unforgettable young woman whose effect on Gus McCrae is immediate and unshakable. Now, in "Dead Man's Walk, " he takes us back to the days when Gus and Call were young Texas Rangers, first experiencing the wild frontier that will form their characters. In "Streets of Laredo, " McMurtry brought the story ahead, giving us Call in his old age.
