I thought they HAD done a Jubal Sackett movie for TV.Perhaps with Tom Selleck? Maybe I'm wrong. LH - I know what you said about some of the characters in the McMurtry books being defeated in life - but I try to see those defeats as positives in the long run. I try to learn from the mistakes some of these folks made. It was the character of Call that helped me to open up a little to some of the choices I could make. He served as a negitive roll model for me. I didn't want to end up like him.