Watch Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk

McCrae, Call, and the remaining survivors are forced to march the "Jornada del Muerto" -- the "Dead Man's Walk" -- to El Paso, where many men, both Mexican and Texan alike, die from the brutal journey.

Colonel Cobb's ambition to annex Sante Fe is thwarted by a series of disasters, ranging from dust storms and prairie fires, to attacking Indians and the Mexican army.

Set in the Texas Republic in the early 1840s, a time in which three cultures - Anglo, Hispanic, and Comanche - were in furious conflict over the same harsh land, we are introduced to Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, the heroes of LONESOME DOVE.