COMANCHE MOON SERIES

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. The party comes across a burnt out wagon and are able to rescue a traumatized mother and her young daughters from some Comanche before returning to Austin. Scull departs with Famous Shoes to retrieve it, deputizing Call and McCrae to take the party back to Austin. The tables turn on the Rangers as the Captain's horse is stolen by Kicking Wolf. In the nearby mansion, Inez Scull briefly seduces a young ranger, Jake Spoon. Meanwhile in Austin, Clara Forsythe runs her shop and is visited by Maggie Tilton - the two become closer while both are waiting for the party to return. Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae are part of a party of eight others, led by Captain Scull and supported by a Kickapoo scout (Famous Shoes), who are hoping to capture Kicking Wolf, who is hiding in the camp of Buffalo Hump. The opening coda then explains that The Texas Rangers 'were formed as a volunteer troop to contain the Comanche' before indicating the locale as north-west Texas in 1858.

COMANCHE MOON SERIES

The series starts in The Republic of Texas in the early 19th century with a massacre of Comanche chieftains, observed by a young Buffalo Hump. It first aired on CBS beginning Sunday, January 13, and continuing Tuesday, January 15, and Wednesday, January 16, 2008. In terms of the Lonesome Dove series' storyline, it serves as a prequel to the original Lonesome Dove miniseries, and a sequel to Dead Man's Walk. Walk into Mordor: Everyone who enters Sierra Perdida where The Black Vaquero lives is doing this.Comanche Moon is a 2008 American television miniseries, an adaptation of the 1997 novel of the same name where Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae are in their middle years, still serving as respected Texas Rangers.

By the end, he uses women and wont think twice about hitting them. At the beginning, Jake is a nice kid, who even appears to have a Precocious Crush on Inez Scull's house slave. Scull used him and discarded him for her own sick amusement.

A lesser one for Jake Spoon, who we see Used to Be a Sweet Kid before Mrs.

His daddy issues evolve him into the utter sociopath seen in Lonesome Dove. Though his mother is said to Buffalo Hump's favorite wife, Blue Duck himself is very much The Un-Favorite.

Start of Darkness: Blue Duck enters the story as a teenage (half-Mexican) Comanche warrior and youngest son of Buffalo Hump.

Rape, Pillage, and Burn: The Comanches' modus operendi.

Protectorate: The whole state of Texas is this to the Texas Rangers.

Even if you survive the fall, you're now very close to or in Buffalo Hump's camp.

The Precarious Ledge: The canyon on the Llano.

With the actual Texas Rangers even! There's always more than one Ranger on a patrol but they often muse on how it's typically thirteen men maximum versus five hundred Comanche or more guarding a border that the whole US Army after the war couldn't watch on its own.

No One Gets Left Behind: Twice Gus and Call are given the option to say they couldn't find Scull and return home.

Bond, I Expect You to Dine: The first thing Ahumado has Scull do when he captures him is join him in feasting on Scull's own horse that he had been chasing across all of Texas and into Mexico.

Little Hero, Big War: Essentially what the Texas Rangers become during the Civil War.

Indy Ploy: McCrae and Call's plan to rescue Scull turns into this.

Heroic BSoD: Everyone has one at some point.

In this case, it's to snakes and spiders.

Fed to the Beast: One of Ahumado's many terrible fates.

Exotic Weapon Supremacy: Buffalo Hump's bow, lance, and buffalo skull shield become this over time.

A Mexican outlaw, said to be of Mayan blood, who trades in stolen horses.

The Dreaded: Ahumado, AKA The Black Vaquero.

Dirt Forcefield: One of the bluecoat officers the Rangers have to work with wishes he had this.

Said slave is the most frequent victim of Inez's cruelty.

Deliberate Values Dissonance: Slavery was legal in Texas in 1856, and Inez Scull keeps an attractive black girl as a slave.

Cold-Blooded Torture: The Comanches love this.

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