Four novels and six screen versions, and hardly any of them were made in the order they happen.
Start with the 1989 miniseries and do not let anybody talk you into starting at the beginning. Dead Man's Walk is the earliest story and it was filmed seventh. It is about two young men you are supposed to already know, and if you do not know them yet it is just a hard trip across Texas with strangers.
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Four parts on CBS over four nights in February 1989. Two retired Texas Rangers drive cattle from the Rio Grande to Montana. Everything else on this page exists because of it, and it needs nothing before it.
Three parts, adapting the sequel McMurtry wrote himself. Call is old and hunting a young killer. This is the real continuation of the story, whatever the 1993 one claims.
Now go back. Gus and Call as teenagers on their first Ranger expedition, and it only lands once you have watched them become the men in Lonesome Dove.
The last gap, the twenty years between their first expedition and the cattle drive. Made twelve years after the prequel it follows, with a third set of actors.
Then what? Two things are left, and neither is part of the story above. Return to Lonesome Dove is a 1993 sequel that McMurtry had nothing to do with, and it contradicts Streets of Laredo outright, so the two cannot both be true. Lonesome Dove: The Series ran forty three episodes in syndication and follows the 1993 version, not the novels. Watch them as curiosities if you like them, but pick one sequel and stay with it.
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