Return to Lonesome Dove

Return to Lonesome Dove, written by John Wilder, is a TV Miniseries involving characters created in the Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel Lonesome Dove. The story focuses on a retired Texas Ranger and his adventures driving mustangs from Texas to Montana. Many fans of the Lonesome Dove Series of novels do not consider this Miniseries to be legitimate because it was not written by Larry McMurtry and its production seems to have been motivated by the success of the Lonesome Dove miniseries. It was nominated for an Emmy Award. It chronologically follows Dead Man's Walk, Comanche Moon and... Lonesome Dove. Return to Lonesome Dove is part of an alternate timeline that does not include Streets of Laredo. In this new timeline, it is followed by the TV show Lonesome Dove: The Series and Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years. Captain Woodrow F. Call , having just buried his friend Augustus McCrae near Lonesome Dove in Texas, plans to return to his ranch in Montana. In order to make the trip profitable he decides to take a herd of wild Mustangs and drive them north with the help of Gideon Walker and Isom Pickett .
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