The eargerly awaited prequel to Lary McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove. In Streets of Laredo he bought the story to a head, giving us Woodrow Call in his old age; now, in Dead Man's Walk, he takes the reader back, to the days when Woodrow Call and his friend Gus McCrae were young Rangers, first confronting the wild frontier that will form their live. Danger, hardship,sacrifice, pain and fear test them to the limits of endurance; friendship, comradeship, courage and love give them the strength to survive and be cheerful against fearful odds.