Like most readers of Lonesome Dove, I was swept headlong into the frontier world of Gus and Call and the Hat Creek outfit. I imagined myself rescuing the beautiful Lorie from Blue Duck ...

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is so much ... and at the top of the list is the Indian Blue Duck. Born out of the Comanche tribe and child of the last great warrior chief, Buffalo Hump, and ...

Lorena, desperate to leave Lonesome Dove, joins them, which leads to disaster when she is kidnapped by the Comanche outlaw Blue Duck and, after much hardship, rescued by Gus. (Lorena is hardly the ...

There sat the town of Lonesome Dove: a dozen grim buildings ... from the appallingly villainous Blue Duck (Frederic Forrest), slam a surly bartender’s head onto the bar of a saloon, engage ...

This sets Blue Duck on a murderous path of villainy and patricide and provides background for his later conflict with Gus and Call in Lonesome Dove. At the center of the book is Scull’s ...