He makes it back to town but refuses to let the surgeons save his life by amputating his leg. While scouting the land, Gus is attacked by a group of Indigenous American warriors and shot in the leg with an arrow. When Gus’s group arrives in Montana, he and Clara enjoy their time together, but he moves on after she refuses to marry him. She helps deliver the baby of July’s wife, Elmira, then takes in July and his infant son after Elmira leaves them. She is a formidable rancher who has seen great tragedy, including the loss of three sons and a grave brain injury to her husband. Part 3 introduces Clara Allen, Gus’s love interest.
Gus rescues her, but Blue Duck escapes and kills July’s son, his deputy, and a girl who had been traveling with them. A bandit named Blue Duck abducts Lorena and sells her to several Indigenous American warriors, who treat her harshly. In Part 2, a sheriff named July Johnson-the brother-in-law of the man Jake killed-sets out to capture Jake. Lorena soon becomes infatuated with Jake. They are accompanied by Lonesome Dove’s only sporting girl, a woman named Lorena. Newt’s mother is most likely Maggie, a sex worker-called “sporting girls” in the novel-but Call has never acknowledged Newt as his son. Once they have enough cattle, they leave Lonesome Dove with their crew, which includes Newt, a young man who may be Call’s son. Over the next few nights, the group stocks their herd by crossing the Mexican border and stealing cattle from a bandit named Pedro Flores. He has been restless in Lonesome Dove and wants to have another adventure before he dies. Once Jake describes Montana’s beauty, and the fortune to be made, Call can’t let go of the idea to drive cattle there. Jake is on the run from the law after killing a dentist-an accident, he claims-whose brother was the sheriff.
The return of Jake Spoon, another former Ranger, sets events in motion that make Call want to take a herd to Montana. In Part 1, Gus, Call, and their men have been running a small cattle outfit in the tiny border town of Lonesome Dove, Texas, since they left the Texas Rangers. The novel unfolds in three parts set in the late 1870s. These topics are pervasive in the text and appear in most summary and analysis sections of this guide. It was also adapted into a popular miniseries starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.Ĭontent Warning: Lonesome Dove depicts sexual assault, graphic violence, and characters with racist biases, and contains offensive stereotypes of Indigenous American characters. Lonesome Dove received major critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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