


The Rangers turn back to Austin as soon as they hear of the raid there. Maggie, having been prepared by Call, hides under a smokehouse, thus escaping the Comanches' notice. They burn much of Austin, killing Clara's parents and ravaging fellow Ranger Long Bill Coleman's wife, Pearl. While they are on this mission, Comanche chief Buffalo Hump leads his nation on the warpath.

Prompted by Scull's insistent and promiscuous wife Inez, Governor Pease sends Call and McCrae out in charge of another typically small Ranger troop to rescue Captain Scull. Call learns that his lover, the reluctant whore Maggie Tilton, is pregnant with his child. Having returned to Austin, McCrae learns that his beloved Clara Forsythe intends to marry his rival, horse trader Bob Allen (though she is not married yet, as Scull's wife had led McCrae to believe).

Scull is soon captured by Ahumado, and placed in a cage, where he is supposed to die slowly. Scull finds the unconscious Kicking Wolf being dragged by the horse, and cuts the Comanche's bonds, which allows Kicking Wolf to survive and return to his tribe. Ahumado intends to impose a slow death on Three Birds, but Three Birds throws himself off a cliff. Ahumado ties Kicking Wolf up to be dragged away by a horse, and takes Kicking Wolf's companion, Three Birds, prisoner. Scull, promoting McCrae and Call to Captains and instructing them to lead the Ranger troop back to Austin, sets off on foot after Kicking Wolf, accompanied only by the Kickapoo tracker Famous Shoes. This bold Indian steals Hector, Scull's famous horse, and takes it to the Sierra Perdida to give to the notorious Mexican bandit Ahumado, feared for the horrible tortures that he inflicts upon his victims. Texas Governor Elisha Pease sends a small troop of Texas Rangers, under the leadership of Captain Inish Scull, to the Llano Estacado in pursuit of the celebrated Comanche horse thief, Kicking Wolf. It is the fourth and final book published in the Lonesome Dove series, but the second installment in terms of the chronology of the narrative. code 10-1) Simon & Schuster publishers, New York larger hardbound in wheat and blue boards with gilt stamp lettering along spine very good condition with unmarked pages dust jacket very good.Ĭomanche Moon is a 1997 western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry.
