SOURCE: "Woodrow Call Rides Again," in New York Times, July 25, 1993.

In the following review, Perrin writes that while the dialogue in Streets of Laredo matches the high quality in Lonesome Dove, the rest of the novel falls short.

It turns out that the person who can write the best parody of Larry McMurtry is Larry McMurtry.

Eight years ago the Texan published what was instantly recognized as his masterpiece: the epic novel Lonesome Dove. Using every element of standard Western myth—cowboys, whores, outlaws, sheriffs—Mr. McMurtry tells the story of a great cattle drive from the Mexican border up to Montana around 1875. Leading it are two legendary heroes: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, both former captains in the Texas Rangers. All is fresh and new in Lonesome Dove, as if no one had ever written a western before. So far as I know, no one ever...