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Dead Man’s Walk

Ride out onto the Texas frontier with the young Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae, long before the men of Lonesome Dove have become legends.

Historical fiction

George Washington Gómez

Américo Paredes

A boy grows up in Texas's Rio Grande Valley, confronting racial prejudice and competing expectations about his Mexican heritage and American future.

Literary fiction

Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History

Paul Horgan

The Rio Grande connects centuries of Indigenous, Spanish, Mexican and American history in an expansive portrait of a contested border river.

History

Screen adaptation

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

Two ageing Texas Rangers drive cattle toward Montana, crossing a vast frontier where friendship must endure distance, danger and the loneliness of travel.

Nonfiction

The Eagle and the Raven

James A. Michener

Sam Houston and Santa Anna anchor a historical encounter between Mexico and Texas that follows the struggles leading toward American annexation.

Literary fiction

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