I just enjoyed the "Comanche Moon" series. I had read the book some years ago. I found this last effort to be much better and more faithful to the story and the characters than the "Return to Lonesome Dove" film. Having spent a lot of time in Texas with relatives there and having read a good deal of Texas history, including revisionist versions, McMurtry nails character, place and language as well as any writer of the western genre. The lead characters in this series were eerily similar to the Gus and Woodrow characters as portrayed by the great Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones in the original. You could almost smell the dirt and the "roadapples" in this one.