Dead Man's Walk
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Our view
Larry McMurtry’s “Dead Man’s Walk” is a harsh, harrowing Western that goes back to the earliest chapter of the “Lonesome Dove” saga. Some readers are gripped by its brutal survival story, which piles one ordeal on another; others simply cannot warm to tales of cowboys. Written third but set first, it can be read before “Comanche Moon” and “Lonesome Dove” by anyone who wants the frontier at its bleakest.
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About the book
Dead Man's Walk is a 1995 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the third book published in the Lonesome Dove series but the first installment in terms of chronology. McMurtry wrote a fourth segment to the Lonesome Dove chronicle, Comanche Moon, which describes the events of the central characters' lives between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove. The second novel in the Lonesome Dove series was the 1993 sequel to the original, called Streets of Laredo. Dead Man's Walk was later adapted into a three-part miniseries of the same name, which aired in May 1996.
Reading order · Lonesome Dove series
Full order & progress →- Lonesome DoveStart here
9.19.1 / 10 - Streets of Laredo
8.38.3 / 10 - Dead Man's WalkThis book
8.28.2 / 10 - Comanche Moon
8.38.3 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 71 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 33% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 8.3. That is how 8.2 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 71 | 100% |
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