Streets of Laredo (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry McMurtry
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Cattle, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, West, U.S., Mexico or Mexicans, Texas, Law enforcement, Accountants or accounting, Frontier or pioneer life
- Locales: Mexico, Texas
In Streets of Laredo, Larry McMurtry completes the story of Captain Woodrow Call. As he is dying, Gus McCrae in Lonesome Dove warns his friend Call that their time has passed. In Streets of Laredo, McMurtry takes up Call's story some twenty years later. Captain Call is a legend in the West, a hero honored for helping make the border region of Texas and Mexico safe for settlers. The legend hides the reality that Call is now a bounty hunter, hired by the wealthy capitalists that he once despised. The legend also obscures the fact that Call is a small, frail, old man...
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