REPUBLIC OF TEXAS. 1842.
In the rapidly industrializing world of the mid 19th century, the great nomadic empires of the days of old that had wreaked swaths of unspeakable destruction across Eurasia had been reduced to mere footnotes in history, crushed and virtually obliterated by the military might of nations like Ming and Qing China. However, in North America, in the frontier lands of the still youthful United States of America, one of the last groups of these nomads are preparing to make their final stand against the ever encroaching world of railroads, telegraphs, and factory ranching. The tribe of the Comanches had always had a fearsome presence on the open plains of Texas, and upon the summer full moon of the White Man's Year of 1842 and led by an exceptionally brutal war chief who had united all of the feuding clans of the colossal Comanche nation into one conquering powerhouse, they decided to forge an empire of their own. A war band of a size never before seen in the history of the Southwest, comprised of over 15,000 warriors mounted on horseback with lance and shield, scoured a path of annihilation deep into the deserts of the westernmost territories. Thousands upon thousands of Apaches, Nez Perce, and Navajo who resisted them were slaughtered. Numerous Spanish haciendas that had thrived in the desert ranching country since the 1500s were wiped off the map overnight, with only carbonized corpses and ash left by morning...
Meanwhile on the eastern fringe of the Comanche Empire, the young and fledgling Republic of Texas enjoyed a prosperity that defined much of the youthful energy and ambitions of the young American nation. Having defeated the military forces of Mexico just a few years prior, securing it's independence and destiny, and now with it's applications for Statehood in the Union progressing smoothly towards ratification in the halls of Washington DC, the robust territory is attracting all manner of visitors and settlers eager for adventure in a new and exciting frontier. Newly built railroads and telegraph lines brought goods, and news of clamor and bustle from eastern commercial hubs like Washington and New York. It's saloons bustled with ranchers, heavily armed frontier militiamen, seedy top hat clad patent medicine salesmen hailing from parts unknown, and fiery orators clamoring for Texas to be recognized as another state of the Union and the fundamental rights of Manifest Destiny for the hardworking citizens that had wrestled the settlements from a lawless past. Fiddle, harmonica, and banjo melodies serenaded tables crowded with rough gamblers and cattlemen. In front of the courthouse in Austin, an imposing man with an almost hypnotically aggressive speaking tone but with a questionable military past in the US Army and even more questionable personal motives is rallying together a party of equally tough adventurers whose goal is to extend Texas's dreams of Manifest Destiny deep into regions never before traveled by even the most daring Anglo explorers, the desert country of the Southwest that is still held by the formidable military of Mexico and the land that is called "Dead Man's Walk" by many cautious and wary gossipers. A land of cinders and ash. The land that had been overrun by the Comanche.
"Dead Man's Walk" is the first epic novel and movie of the mesmerizing Lonesome Dove saga by the legendary author Larry McMurtry, who has crafted with utmost love and care, perhaps the greatest and most defining of the true American Novel. The story of Texas is the story of America, and in the greatest days of this country's expeditionary and innovative spirit, if you wanted to see action, adventure, and experience the greatest folktales in the making, you would go to Texas.
LARRY MCMURTRY'S DEAD MAN'S WALK. FULL SERIES:
In the rapidly industrializing world of the mid 19th century, the great nomadic empires of the days of old that had wreaked swaths of unspeakable destruction across Eurasia had been reduced to mere footnotes in history, crushed and virtually obliterated by the military might of nations like Ming and Qing China. However, in North America, in the frontier lands of the still youthful United States of America, one of the last groups of these nomads are preparing to make their final stand against the ever encroaching world of railroads, telegraphs, and factory ranching. The tribe of the Comanches had always had a fearsome presence on the open plains of Texas, and upon the summer full moon of the White Man's Year of 1842 and led by an exceptionally brutal war chief who had united all of the feuding clans of the colossal Comanche nation into one conquering powerhouse, they decided to forge an empire of their own. A war band of a size never before seen in the history of the Southwest, comprised of over 15,000 warriors mounted on horseback with lance and shield, scoured a path of annihilation deep into the deserts of the westernmost territories. Thousands upon thousands of Apaches, Nez Perce, and Navajo who resisted them were slaughtered. Numerous Spanish haciendas that had thrived in the desert ranching country since the 1500s were wiped off the map overnight, with only carbonized corpses and ash left by morning...
Meanwhile on the eastern fringe of the Comanche Empire, the young and fledgling Republic of Texas enjoyed a prosperity that defined much of the youthful energy and ambitions of the young American nation. Having defeated the military forces of Mexico just a few years prior, securing it's independence and destiny, and now with it's applications for Statehood in the Union progressing smoothly towards ratification in the halls of Washington DC, the robust territory is attracting all manner of visitors and settlers eager for adventure in a new and exciting frontier. Newly built railroads and telegraph lines brought goods, and news of clamor and bustle from eastern commercial hubs like Washington and New York. It's saloons bustled with ranchers, heavily armed frontier militiamen, seedy top hat clad patent medicine salesmen hailing from parts unknown, and fiery orators clamoring for Texas to be recognized as another state of the Union and the fundamental rights of Manifest Destiny for the hardworking citizens that had wrestled the settlements from a lawless past. Fiddle, harmonica, and banjo melodies serenaded tables crowded with rough gamblers and cattlemen. In front of the courthouse in Austin, an imposing man with an almost hypnotically aggressive speaking tone but with a questionable military past in the US Army and even more questionable personal motives is rallying together a party of equally tough adventurers whose goal is to extend Texas's dreams of Manifest Destiny deep into regions never before traveled by even the most daring Anglo explorers, the desert country of the Southwest that is still held by the formidable military of Mexico and the land that is called "Dead Man's Walk" by many cautious and wary gossipers. A land of cinders and ash. The land that had been overrun by the Comanche.
"Dead Man's Walk" is the first epic novel and movie of the mesmerizing Lonesome Dove saga by the legendary author Larry McMurtry, who has crafted with utmost love and care, perhaps the greatest and most defining of the true American Novel. The story of Texas is the story of America, and in the greatest days of this country's expeditionary and innovative spirit, if you wanted to see action, adventure, and experience the greatest folktales in the making, you would go to Texas.
LARRY MCMURTRY'S DEAD MAN'S WALK. FULL SERIES:
