Scull promotes McCrae and Call to captains and orders them to lead the Ranger troop back to Austin. The Comanche steals Scull's horse Hector and takes it to the Sierra Perdida as a gift for Mexican bandit Ahumado. Texas Governor Elisha Pease sends a small troop of Texas Rangers, under the leadership of Captain Inish Scull, to the Llano Estacado in pursuit of Kicking Wolf, a celebrated Comanche horse thief. In this bridge novel between McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae are in their middle years, still serving as respected Texas Rangers. The novel was adapted as a three-part television miniseries of the same name, first aired in January 2008. A Comanche Moon in Texas history was a full moon in autumn which permitted Comanche warriors to ride by night journeying southward to raid Mexico for livestock and captives. In terms of chronology, it is the second installment of the narrative. It is the fourth and final book he published in the Lonesome Dove series. Comanche Moon (1997) is a western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry.
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