Streets of Laredo
- 547
- Pages
- about 10 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Streets of Laredo” is a brutal, humane sequel to “Lonesome Dove” in which Woodrow Call, years later, hunts a train robber for the railroad. Larry McMurtry keeps the same wide, sympathetic narrative voice, and the book is above all a study of character. Some readers find it smaller in scale than the first novel and its ending drawn out. Chronologically it closes the story, so it belongs after “Lonesome Dove”.
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About the book
Streets of Laredo is a 1993 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the second book published in the Lonesome Dove series, but the fourth and final book chronologically. It was adapted into a television miniseries in 1995.
Reading order · Lonesome Dove series
Full order & progress →- Lonesome DoveStart here
9.19.1 / 10 - Streets of LaredoThis book
8.38.3 / 10 - Dead Man's Walk
8.28.2 / 10 - Comanche Moon
8.38.3 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.3 across 90 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 38% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 8.3. That is how 8.3 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 6.0 | 6 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 8.5 | 84 | 93% |
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