Lonesome Dove

Review

Surprisingly, this book brought up a lot of existential questions for me. Whenever I would wonder why the cowboys were risking all this danger to bring cattle to Montana, Gus would wonder the same thing, and the conclusion seemed to be that they had to pick something in this life to do instead of sitting around all day.

I also felt that their nostalgia for the 'wild west' was very a propos to the current state of tech: two men, surveying a world they helped tame and modernize, wondering if it hadn't been better before.

"She might have died anyplace," Call said. "I'll die someplace, and so will you—it might not be no better place than Lonesome Dove." "It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's living," Augustus said. "I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live."