Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, Book 3)

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I didn’t know this until I was looking up some stuff on the net for this review, but Lonesome Dove was virtually snubbed at the Emmy Awards. Yet, the thought of seeing the love of his life Clara Allen at the midway point of the trek, spurs McCrae to join up. All three are limited in choices between marriage and whoring, and in the end Clara desires a brighter future for both Lorena and her two daughters.

e. the author does spell it out quite often, you don’t need to think too deeply here) between the characters – loyality, sex drive, love, pride, addiction. He touches on the plight of the Indians who in the 1870s are still fighting off the cavalry and cowboys for control of the great land grab. He didn't work unless he had to, and yet he could sit down night after night and out-eat three men who had put in a day's labor. He then rides on to Lonesome Dove, where the cook Bolivar, who had abandoned the cattle drive before it left Texas, is delighted to see him again.From page one you are completely taken into this strange world from the not too distant past…and it is as an authentic portrayal of the wild west as is possible, I imagine. Her disposition did suggest some time spent with Indians, but which Indians and how long was anybody's guess. Gus, rebuffed by Clara and no longer Lorena's sole caretaker, decides to continue on the cattle drive and see the journey to Montana through to its end.

Before leaving in the spring, he puts Newt in charge of the ranch and gives him his horse, his rifle, and his family watch, but still cannot bring himself to publicly acknowledge the boy as his son. But to me the irony is that now that I have finished it, I find myself thinking of the book fondly – more as a romantic tale of a bygone period. A carefree persona happy to sit back with a glass of whiskey and a deck of cards, McCrae would rather be outside a saloon in Lonesome Dove than on a two thousand mile journey north.Lorena is devastated by Gus' death and refuses to open her letter; standing silently by his coffin day and night, she suddenly faints.