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516:, the Rangers and cavalry locate a Comanche camp, and recapture "the Parker girl", now a woman who has assimilated to the Comanche. Heading back to Austin, they meet Clara Allen, who is visiting to sell her family's property. Clara and McCrae rekindle their friendship, and she returns to her family in Nebraska. Maggie begins showing symptoms of TB. At the Comanche camp, Buffalo Hump leaves for good. His brother-in-law relays the news to his nephew, Blue Duck, at his forest hideaway. The Rangers and sheriffs raid the Comanche camp but Blue Duck has already left seeking to kill his father. His death represents the end of an era for the region. Maggie dies of TB, and Newt is taken in by Pearl and Rippley. 471:
from some Comanche before returning to Austin. Separating from Famous Shoes at a river crossing to the Sierra, Scull then tracks his horse alone towards Yellow Cliffs in northern Mexico, a known slavers den, and finds an injured Kicking Wolf but no horse. Buffalo Hump then plans a combined and perhaps final raid to the ocean for all Comanche. In Austin, having met the governor, McCrae and Forsythe reunite, as do Call and Tilton (who tells Call that she is carrying his child). Meanwhile, Scull is captured by Ahumado's men and put into a wooden cage. Call and McCrae, now confirmed as captains, are then tasked with retrieving Scull just as the Comanche army departs.
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have a run-in with some wild cattle before being directed to rancher Dick King and the "town" of Lonesome Dove. Unable to secure the ransom, Call and McCrae set off alone to rescue Scull. Meanwhile, Scull is alive in the snake pit. Ahumado is bitten by a spider and dies en route to a legendary medicine tree. The rest of the camp is abandoned. Scull is rescued and returned to Austin, where he suffers occasional delusions. McCrae loses the love of Clara when she learns of his affair with Inez. Call cannot commit to marrying Maggie and claiming her newborn son, named Newton, as his.
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The show opens with a Comanche attack on Austin. Property losses are extensive, most of the men are killed, and women are raped or taken captive if they are young enough. Learning of this, the Rangers decide to return immediately. Ranger Bill Coleman suffers from his losses and hangs himself. Scull,
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ends. Call is still single and McCrae is mourning the death of his wife Nellie. Call is blind to Spoon moving in with Maggie (who works at the store). He can neither admit feelings for her or accept his son, even though he regularly has dinner with the pair. Spoon leaves for other opportunities. In
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The tables turn on the Rangers as the Captain's horse is stolen by Kicking Wolf. Scull departs with Famous Shoes to retrieve it, deputizing Call and McCrae to take the party back to Austin. The party comes across a burnt out wagon and are able to rescue a traumatized mother and her young daughters
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In Austin, the governor re-issues the order to Call and McCrae to rescue Scull, if they can convince cattle ranchers to provide them the 1000-head ransom on credit. Call tries to come to terms with being a father, while McCrae ponders why Clara chose Allen over him. En route to the ranchers, they
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The series received lukewarm reviews from critics. Common complaints were the clownish portrayal of the Texas Rangers, who were continually drunk on duty and tumbling into bed with beautiful women under the slightest pretext, the negative stereotyping of the Mexican characters, who were largely
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Austin, Governor Pease is in charge, but the pending arrival of Union cavalry represents a new phase in the struggle with the Comanche. Rangers are to serve as scouts. In Nebraska, Clara Allen, now a mother of two, hears of Nellie's death and mourns the loss of her own son, too. In
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portrayed as unwashed wild-eyed drooling killers superstitiously worshiping long-vanished Aztec gods, and the simplistic portrayal of frontier women, who were either weak-willed, simpering victims or cruel and manipulative Gorgons. Brian Lowry from
459:"were formed as a volunteer troop to contain the Comanche" and indicates the locale is north-west Texas in 1858. Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae are among a party of eight men, led by Captain Scull and supported by a 467:, Clara Forsythe runs her shop and is visited by Maggie Tilton; the two become closer while waiting for the rangers to return. In the nearby mansion, Inez Scull briefly seduces a young ranger, Jake Spoon. 480:
having survived the cage, is moved to Ahumado's snake-pit while awaiting ransom. Blue Duck falls out with his father, Buffalo Hump, and is exiled, and the camp is devastated by
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scout (Famous Shoes). They seek to capture Kicking Wolf, who is hiding in the camp of Buffalo Hump. Meanwhile, in
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Events such as the shooting of the chieftains (ahistorical, but based on the
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chiefs, observed by a young Buffalo Hump. The opening coda explains that The
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On the plains, Blue Duck continues to attack and kill settlers. Led by
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It was released in Region 1 on DVD on February 26, 2008.
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