New! Just added.. Map detail from Larry McMurtry’s Comanche Moon epic.  Gus, Call, Buffalo Hump, Jake, Maggie Clara, Sierra Perdida, Captain Scull, the trails, the markers and the events.

 

The Lonesome Dove saga has entered American folklore.  Larry McMurtry’s novel and the prequels & sequels have captured the imagination of millions.  Until the first version of our Lonesome Dove map was published in 2005 there was no way for the reader to follow and understand the topography and geography of this epic Texas to Montana trek.

 

While the novel is, of course, fiction and some of the locations like the village of Lonesome Dove on the Rio Grande are also fictional, McMurtry who is a superb western historian, did not take too many liberties with the layout of the rough and challenging terrain or with the character of the inhabitants of an area that after the Civil War was slowly turning from open range and lawlessness to  what was then called civilization.

 

The Lonesome Dove ~ Comanche Moon map is an exclusive copyrighted design based on an original 1881 US map by S.A. Mitchell.

This map also has most of the Texas locations and place names from McMurty’s equally great Comanche Moon novel which is the preface to Lonesome Dove. It follows Gus & Call during their Texas Ranger days before the Civil War.  Comanche Moon is now a mini-series for television.

 

The Chisholm, Great Western, Goodnight-Loving, Shawnee and the other major overland cattle trails are also overlaid in their correct positions. This is a very powerful and informative map. Available in four sizes.

The Lonesome Dove ~ Comanche Moon & Great Trails Map