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Violence
A lot
Significant violence including raids, scalping, torture, and battle deaths; Western frontier violence depicted with realism
Language
Some
Profanity and period language
Sexual Content
Some
References to sexual relationships and prostitution; not graphically explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking and gambling
Emotional Intensity
Some
The moral ambiguity of frontier violence; trauma suffered by settlers and Native peoples alike
What this book is about
Set in the 1850s-1870s, this prequel to Lonesome Dove follows young Rangers Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae through the era of Comanche raids and Texas expansion. The Comanche war chief Idahi and the bandit Ahumado are formidable antagonists. McMurtry portrays frontier violence with unsentimental honesty — raids, scalping, torture, and massacre appear alongside the Rangers' own capacity for brutality. A sweeping Western epic.
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Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Graphic Western violence including scalping and torture
Brutal depictions of frontier warfare
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