Streets Of Laredo

De: Larry McMurtry

Narrado por: Daniel Von Bargen

The acclaimed sequel to Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic Lonesome Dove, and the culmination of the legendary western saga, follows the further adventures of these beloved characters as they reckon with their past choices and uncertain futures in the rapidly changing American West.

Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena—once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. This long chase leads them across the last wild stretches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier.

great western for LD lovers

Great story overall especially for lonesome dove fans. there are surprises for the main LD characters, and elaboration on others plus fascinating new ones. Brutality rated R.

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What a fitting conclusion!

Although not as stellar as Lonesome Dove as far as story or narrator, this was a fitting conclusion to the saga. I love the new characters, the pace, and the twists. I'm disappointed Lee Hornsley didn't narrate but the reading was alright.

Please add another book or two to the series

I am now lost without a book to listen to. I guess I'll have to start the series over again since this series was so good that it about became my reality.

Cheers

I loved it.

I'm seeing a whole lot of "it's not Lonesome Dove" in the reviews. it most certainly isn't, but this is an excellent book, he followed up a 10/10 with an 8/10.

A savage end to the Lonesome Dove series

am not alone in having read the series out of sequence. I read McMurtry’s seminal Lonesome Dove first, one of the best novels I have ever read, about eight years ago. More recently, I read Dead Man’s Walk (chronologically the first volume), Comanche Moon (the second volume), and finally, Streets of Laredo. I thought about rereading Lonesome Dove after finishing Comanche Moon, just to keep it in order, but decided against it and skipped to Streets of Laredo. The last volume is the darkest entry of the series. In Streets, I missed Gus McCrae, the wisecracking, whoremongering, hard-drinking foil to the hard straight man played by Woodrow Call. The bad guys in Streets (and in the other volumes) are as nasty as you’ll find in literature. There is nothing romantic about the Old West (Texas and northern Mexico) that McMurtry depicts in Streets. Life is hard, and the characters are in a battle for survival. It’s as if McMurtry wanted to move on from the western genre to more contemporary novels set in Texas, though you can’t say his later novels portray happy times in Texas (at least The Last Picture Show). McMurtry is a master of tension, you’ll keep turning the pages, or in my case, keep listening on Audible at every opportunity. He breathes life into each of his characters, and he will break your heart, guaranteed. “Oh Mary,” says the old drunk tracker Billy Williams at a seminal moment in the story, and we say, “Oh Mary” with him. Every man in the novel falls in love with Maria, except her evil son, and the readers do, too. I read that McMurtry has a talent for writing about women, and the women are the heroines in this novel, though Woodrow Call and Pea Eye Parker have their moments. Do yourself a favor and read the entire series, in chronological order. It took me a spell to get used to Daniel Von Bargen's narration, but in the end, I was won over. Splendid job.