![]() ![]() I can appreciate the many, many (many, many, many) joys of Streets of Laredo while still bemoaning the rather dismissive way that McMurtry treats his finest creation. ![]() It would have worked just as well as a stand-alone with new characters. I will argue, in a moment, that it is better than Lonesome Dove in many ways, though I will always love the tale of Gus and Call’s last cattle drive more, and cherish it among the best of the best novels I've ever read.īut in a very real sense, Streets of Laredo did not need to be a follow-up. Streets of Laredo, Larry McMurtry’s sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, is not a bad book. How do you follow up Lonesome Dove, one of the greatest novels ever written? ![]() ‘Yes, he had exceptional determination,’ Goodnight told him…” ‘I’ve always heard he was the greatest Ranger of all.’ ‘Why, wasn’t he a great Ranger?’ the boy asked. ‘What about Captain Call?’ Goodnight asked. He was glad to talk about it, to get his feelings out. ‘Why, it’s Captain Call, I guess,’ the young cowboy said. ‘What’s made you look so peaked, J.D.?’ Goodnight inquired. What did a healthy sprout of twenty have to be despondent about? Goodnight ignored his despondence for a while, then got tired of it. “On the ride back across the gray plains, the young cowboy – he was just twenty – looked rather despondent. ![]()
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