![]() But other Lonesome Dove characters show up in "Streets of Laredo," set some 15 years after the first book ended with the Hat Creek outfit's having reached Montana. ![]() In the sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Dove" (1985), Augustus McCrae is gone, of course, although his friend and partner Woodrow Call, the main character in the sequel, invokes old Gus' memory more than a few times.Young Newt, Call's son, and July Johnson, the Arkansas sheriff, didn't make it to the sequel: Newt was killed when a horse fell on him, and July drowned. Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" Hat Creek cattle-drive outfit is back on the trail - but in "Streets of Laredo," McMurtry is traveling a different sort of path. ![]()
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