Streets of Laredo
26 June 2025Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
The final novel in Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove quartet, Streets of Laredo is an exhilarating and achingly poignant tale of heroism and friendship, set in the American West.
Captain Woodrow Call, Gus McCrae's old partner, once a youthful Texas Ranger, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city...
Details
26 June 2025512 pages
9781529099973Imprint: Picador
Reviews
One of McMurtry's most powerful and moving achievementsLos Angeles Times
Gorgeous . . . violent, funny, achingly sad, filled with heroism and regret . . . If you can put Streets of Laredo down, I'll eat my ten-gallon hatCosmopolitan
Those who have been waiting . . . for an appropriate sequel to the memorable and Pulitzer-winning Lonesome Dove can take heart. Streets of Laredo continues that epic of the waning years of the Texas Rangers with all the narrative drive and elegiac passion of its forerunnerPublishers Weekly
McMurtry has written a sad, funny elegy not only for his characters' pasts, but for the waning of the American WestNew York Times
