These are the wild days when Gus Mc Crae & Woodrow Call
- heroes of Lonesome Dove
- first encounter the untamed frontier that will form their characters Not yet twenty Gus & Call enlist as Texas Rangers under the command of Caleb Cobb a capricious outlaw determined to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans The two young men experience their first great adventure in the barren empty landscape of the great plains in which arbitrary violence is the only law
- whether from nature or from those whose territory they must cross in order to reach New Mexico Danger sacrifice & fear test Gus & Call to the limits of endurance as they seek the strength & courage to survive against almost insurmountable odds in the West of early nineteenth-century America