Augustus MCCrae and W.F. Call are former Taxas Rangers, retired and becalmed after long years of putting down the Comanches. Gues is the romantic, a reluctunt rancher who fills his days whith whisky and the sound of his own voice reminiscing about the old days. Call is devoted to hard work without purpose and a mystic silence. A driven, demanding man, he is obsessed with the dream of creating his own empire, a dream that only drags Gus along in its wake, but draws in a vast cast of characters.....Lonsome Dove is a monoumental novel that embraces all the West and brings alive as never before that mos enduring of American myths-the frontier.