Larry McMurtry brought the story of Lonesome Dove's Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call forward, giving us Call in his old age. Dead Man's Walk takes the reader back to the days when Gus and Call were young Texas Rangers, first experiencing the wild frontier. We meet Clara Forsythe, the spirited, young woman whose effect on Gus McCrae is immediate and unshakable, the great ferocious Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump, and the Apache kidnapper Gomez. Danger, sacrifice, and fear test these two young men to the limites of endurance; friendship, comradeship, and love give them the strength and courage to survive almost insurmountable odds in the West of the early nineteenth century.