When it comes to contriving tests of manhood, Mr. Needless to say, especially to readers of "Lonesome Dove" (1985), they are soon driven to thatĮxtreme. Matter - fit food perhaps for slaves and savages, but edible by white men only as a last, stomach-heaving remedy for starvation. The whores are used by the Rangers, and anybody else who can cough up six bits, with the remote, casual confidence one might feel toward a seasoned and reliable saddle. Is plumb chockablock with whores and turtles. Save perhaps for a few youngsters who have lied about their ages, everyone in the troop has seen Matilda naked more times than he can count.
McMurtry credibly reports, "the sight of a naked,Ģ00-pound whore carrying a full-grown snapping turtle" captures the complete attention of the troop.īut it must be merely the piquant conjunction of whore and turtle that attracts them. Texas as the Great Western, walks, "naked as the air," up from the muddy Rio Grande and into an encampment of Texas Rangers, holding a snapping turtle by the tail. N the opening paragraph of Larry McMurtry's "Dead Man's Walk," a whore named Matilda Jane Roberts, known throughout south Septem'Lonsome Dove': The Prequel By THOMAS FLANAGAN
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