Poverty Bill, SASS# 45790 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Howdy, have a nice book for sale. "Streets of Laredo" by Larry McMurtry The sequel to 'Lonesome Dove". "Streets Of Laredo is Larry McMurtry's long awaited sequel to Lonesome Dove, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Hat Creek outfit's epic trail drive from Texas to Montana. At the center of the novel is Captain Call, Augustus McCrae's old partnern, now a bounty hunter hired ot track down and kill the brilliant and elusive youn Mexican bandit Joey Garza. In the chase that ensues, an old man's skills are matched against a young mans daring. Call's long hunt takes him into the Texas panhandle, across the Pecos, and into northern Mexico. In pursuing Joey Garza, and the psychopathic manburner Mox Mox, Call traverses one of the last untamed and unsettled stretches of the American West. Call takes with him an Eatern dude; an incompetent deputy; and his old corporal, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena - once in love with Gus McCrae. In Mexico he meets Maria, Joey Garza's mother, the gallant Mexican woman who stryggles to save her son, both from Captain Call and from himself. As the chase progresses we meet such true-life Westerners as John Wesley Hardin, Judge Roy Bean and the great cattleman Charles Goodnight. The struggle that animates this novel is not merely between an old man and a young man; it is also a struggle between civilization and barbarism. Lorena Parker journeys into the barren lands in midwinter to rescue her husband and bring him back to their decent life; Maria Garza rides to Crow Town, a community of casual killers, in order to save her son. In the final, terrible conflict, Pea eye's loyalty to his family and the devotion of the two women to husband and son hold a candle up to civilization for values that go beyond an ability to kill, and in doing so offer a hope for the West that is to be." copyright 1993 6 3/8" x 9 1/2" tall 589 pages book and dust jacket are in near excellent condition $18.00 shipped to you (media rate) in the U.S.A. SOLD If you are interested or need more info. please post here on the wire. Thanks for look'n. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Al OVERA, SASS#26238 Life Posted November 10, 2012 Share Posted November 10, 2012 Howdy, have a nice book for sale. "Streets of Laredo" by Larry McMurtry The sequel to 'Lonesome Dove". "Streets Of Laredo is Larry McMurtry's long awaited sequel to Lonesome Dove, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Hat Creek outfit's epic trail drive from Texas to Montana. At the center of the novel is Captain Call, Augustus McCrae's old partnern, now a bounty hunter hired ot track down and kill the brilliant and elusive youn Mexican bandit Joey Garza. In the chase that ensues, an old man's skills are matched against a young mans daring. Call's long hunt takes him into the Texas panhandle, across the Pecos, and into northern Mexico. In pursuing Joey Garza, and the psychopathic manburner Mox Mox, Call traverses one of the last untamed and unsettled stretches of the American West. Call takes with him an Eatern dude; an incompetent deputy; and his old corporal, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena - once in love with Gus McCrae. In Mexico he meets Maria, Joey Garza's mother, the gallant Mexican woman who stryggles to save her son, both from Captain Call and from himself. As the chase progresses we meet such true-life Westerners as John Wesley Hardin, Judge Roy Bean and the great cattleman Charles Goodnight. The struggle that animates this novel is not merely between an old man and a young man; it is also a struggle between civilization and barbarism. Lorena Parker journeys into the barren lands in midwinter to rescue her husband and bring him back to their decent life; Maria Garza rides to Crow Town, a community of casual killers, in order to save her son. In the final, terrible conflict, Pea eye's loyalty to his family and the devotion of the two women to husband and son hold a candle up to civilization for values that go beyond an ability to kill, and in doing so offer a hope for the West that is to be." copyright 1993 6 3/8" x 9 1/2" tall 589 pages book and dust jacket are in near excellent condition $18.00 shipped to you (media rate) in the U.S.A. If you are interested or need more info. please post here on the wire. Thanks for look'n. Bill PM Sent. Al Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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