Used. Hardcover. Before they were the legendary lawmen of *Lonesome Dove*, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call were just a pair of greenhorn Texas Rangers barely out of their teens, and Larry McMurtry’s prequel tracks their perilous introduction to the frontier. This sweeping western finds the reckless duo tagging along on a half-baked scheme to annex Santa Fe, navigating a punishing, Comanche-patrolled landscape where survival is anything but guaranteed. McMurtry strips away the nostalgic patina of old Texas to serve up a gritty, gripping coming-of-age chronicle that shows how two iconic frontiersmen earned their mettle. Saddle up for a brilliantly brutal ride into the wild youth of American fiction's favorite rangers.