Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove1989

Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by Texan author Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series but the third installment in the series chronologically. The story focuses on the relationship among several retired Tex… more »



Blue Duck:
[Call is looking at Blue Duck in jail] I hear you brought your stinkin' old friend to my hangin'.

Woodrow Call:
He'd enjoy seein' it alright.

Blue Duck:
I should've caught him & cooked him when I had the chance.

Woodrow Call:
I'd have killed you for it, if you had.

Blue Duck:
[laughing] I raped women, stole children, and burned houses, & shot men, run off horses, & killed cattle, and robbed who I pleased, all over your territory, and you never even got a good look at me until today! I don't reckon you would've killed me.

Woodrow Call:
It don't matter much now though, does it?

Blue Duck:
You Rangers! I 'spect I'll kill a passel of you yet.

Woodrow Call:
I doubt it; not unless you can sprout wings 'n' fly through the hangman's noose

Blue Duck:
I can fly - an old woman taught me - and if you car to wait, you'll see me

Woodrow Call:
I'll wait. I give you my word on it

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