Woodrow F. Call is a fictional Texas Ranger, and partner of Augustus McCrae. He appears in all four books in the Lonesome Dove series. Much of the books revolve around his relationship with Gus, and the two are polar opposites. Call is very task-oriented, with a passion for his work, but very little understanding of the complexities of human relationships, especially when it comes to women. Gus, on the other hand, while an able ranger, is incredibly lazy, and frequently complains about work. He is also a gregarious ladies' man, who in his youth spent much of his time serenading Clara Allen, and in both his youth and old age frequently spent time with whores. Despite their opposing personalities, Gus and Call remain close friends from their late teens, when they first meet, until Gus's death. Augustus McCrae, commonly known simply as Gus for short, is a fictional Texas Ranger who appears in three books in the Lonesome Dove series. ... The Lonesome Dove Series is a series of four books written by Larry McMurtry. ... Clara Forsythe Allen is a fictional character who appears in the Lonesome Dove series. ...

Dead Man's Walk

In this film, Call is played by Jonny Lee Miller who, at the time, was married to Angelina Jolie, making him the former son-in-law of Jon Voigt. Jonny Lee Miller Jonny Lee Miller (born November 15, 1972) is an English actor. ... Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. ... Marcheline Bertrand and Jon Voight Jonathan Voight (born December 29, 1938 in Yonkers, New York) is an American actor. ...

This book, and the film based on it, tell the story of one of his first adventures with Gus McCrae. While Texas is still an independent Republic, they sign on with Cpt. Caleb Cobb, who is leading a fictionalized version of the Texas Santa Fe Expedition, an attempt by Texas to annex New Mexico. The Texas Santa Fe Expedition (1841) was a failed expedition to the Santa Fe trail that would increase tensions between Texas and Mexico, leading up to the Mexican American war. ...

While En Route to Santa Fe, the party stops to fish in a river, where they fall under attack by a band of Comanches. Woodrow's wary eye and quick reflexes help him to kill a Comanche at point-blank range in the river, earning the nickname Gun-in-the-Water from the Comanches, and a promotion to Corporal from Col. Cobb. Unfortunately, the Indian he killed was a son of Buffalo Hump. This act earns him the lifelong enmity of both Buffalo Hump and later, his other son, Blue Duck. Blue Duck is a fictional character, a biracial Indian appearing in two books in the Lonesome Dove series. ...

As the expedition continues, Call, McCrae, and Bigfoot Wallace are frequently called upon to catch food, especially in the more desolate regions of the Comancheria. Buffalo Hump also frequently sabotages their mission, by killing members during the night, sending his fellow Comanche Kicking Wolf to steal horses, and setting a fire that destroys many of their supplies, and causes many others to fall to their deaths while hiding in a dangerous valley. The Comancheria is the name commonly given to the historical homeland of the Comanche indian tribe. ...

Call, McCrae and Wallace reach New Mexico first, where they are promptly arrested by Cpt. Salazar, who intends to march them to Mexico for trial. During the mach, however, a bear attacks the camp, and the three of them escape to regroup with the rest of the expedition. When they arrive in New Mexico again, their ranks are so thinned that Cobb realizes they cannot hope to capture Santa Fe, so he surrenders to Salazar. Call is offered breakfast, but refuses to eat while the rest of the company starves. Cobb, despite his incompetence, is granted an audience with the Governor. Upon seeing how much better Cobb is being treated, that he is effectively being rewarding for his poor leadership, Call loses his temper and attacks him. Though Cobb survives, Call is sentenced to 100 lashes, a punishment no mar before him has ever survived. Call amazes everyone by living through it.

After being captured in Santa Fe, the members of the expedition are forced march through the Jornada del Muerto, where several other members die from heat exhaustion, starvation, and Indian attack. They are met by French authorities who are disgusted at Cpt. Salazar's inability to keep his company alive. He is ordered to walk back to New Mexico, alone, through the Jornada, while his prisoners are taken to a leper colony in San Lazaro. There, the remaining members are forced to choose who will live and who will die by drawing beans from a jar. White means life, black means death. This method of choosing is borrowed from the Mier Expedition. Call is one of a fortunate few who draws a white bean. The Mier Expedition was a failed raid by a Texan militia on the Mexican border settlement of Cuidad Mier on December 26, 1842. ...

While staying in Austin between missions, Call becomes a regular customer of a prostitute named Maggie Tilton. He insists on paying her, but she falls in love with him fast, and hopes that he will reciprocate and marry her, but he never does.

Comanche Moon

Call is played in this film by Karl Urban. Karl-Heinz Urban (born June 7, 1972) is a New Zealand actor. ...

In this book, at least a decade has passed since the Santa Fe Expedition. He and Gus are still Rangers, though their company now includes Joshua Deets, Pea Eye Parker and Jake Spoon. While out on patrol with their commanding officer, Inish Scull, the Indian Kicking Wolf steals Scull's horse. Scull had grown tired of being a Ranger, and was looking for any excuse to leave his command, and the theft of his horse was just the excuse he needed, so he sets out with Famous Shoes to find the horse, leaving the rest of the troop in the command of Gus and Call, who immediately receive ad hoc promotions to Captain. Joshua Deets is a fictional Texas Ranger appearing in two novels in the Lonesome Dove series. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Jake Spoon is a fictional Texas Ranger appearing in two books of the Lonesome Dove series. ...

Upon their return to Austin, Call receives word that Maggie is pregnant with his child. Call is not given much time to digest this information, however, as Inez Scull puts pressure on Governor Elisha Pease to send Gus and Call to retreive her husband.

Lonesome Dove

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Years after the events in Comanche Moon, Call, McCrae, Deets and Parker all now live in Lonesome Dove. Maggie has died, and they have informally adopted her son Newt. Though he is devoted to raising him, Call will not admit that Newt is his son, preferring to insist that Jake could be his father, and Newt is given the last name Dobbs.

Jake has left town for several years, but the story picks up when Deets, returning from a trip to a bank in San Antonio, brings Jake with him. Jake tells them about Montana, and Call, usually the practical one, is enchanted, and decides to lead a cattle drive. San Antonio (the Spanish name of Saint Anthony) is a common toponym in parts of the world where the Spanish language is or was spoken: Argentina San Antonio, Jujuy province Belize San Antonio, Cayo District Chile San Antonio Mexico San Antonio, San Luis Potosí Philippines San Antonio, Quezon San Antonio...

Return to Lonesome Dove

This film was based on an original screenplay, and as such, is not considered by Larry McMurtry to be part of the coninuity of his novels or of their adaptations. Call is played in this film by Jon Voigt. One of McMurtrys bookstores in Archer City, Texas Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter, American novelist and essayist. ... Marcheline Bertrand and Jon Voight Jonathan Voight (born December 29, 1938 in Yonkers, New York) is an American actor. ...

Lonesome Dove: The Series

This series, which McMurtry also views as apocryphal, focuses mainly on the exploits of Call's ellegitimate son, Newt Dobbs. Call only appears briefly in one episode, in which he was played by Lee Majors. Eft redirects here. ... Lee Majors as Steve Austin, The Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors (born Harvey Lee Yeary on April 23, 1939 in Wyandotte, Michigan) is an American actor, best known for playing the part of Steve Austin, a former astronaut with bionic limbs, in the television series The Six Million Dollar...

Streets of Laredo

Years after Lonesome Dove, Call, Pea Eye Parker, and Lorena Wood have all returned to Texas. Lorena and Pea Eye have gotten married, and Lorena now works as a schoolteacher. Call is hired by a railroad company to track down Joey Garza, a Mexican bandit who has been robbing their trains and killing their passengers. Call initially expects Pea Eye to accompany him, but he begs off under pressure from Lorena. Call sets off after Joey Garza with Ned Brookshire; who represents the railroad; and Deputy Sherriff Ted Plunkert, whom he recruits while passing through San Antonio. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Lorena Wood Parker is a fictional character who appears in two of the novels and films in the Lonesome Dove series She first appears in Lonesome Dove, the first book published, but the fourth chronologically. ...

Pea Eye eventually sets out to find him with help from Famous Shoes. On their way, however, they are captured and imprisoned by a local sherriff who belives Famous Shoes had stolen and killed a horse years before. Call finds them, and presents him with an order from the governor to release them. The Sherriff refuses, and threatens to shoot Call and the others if he lets them out of prison. As he has several times before in the series, Call loses his temper and beats the man senseless for his "rude behavior." Call and his company pay a visit to Judge Roy Bean, where they learn that a pyromaniac named Mox Mox is alive and on the loose in Texas. Call splits off to kill Mox Mox. He ends up only fatally wounding him, but is able to save tw young children; who happen to be the son and daughter of Jasper Fant, who went with him to Montana; and is reunited with Lorena in San Antonio. While there, he learns that in his absence, Joey Garza killed Judge Roy Bean. He and Lorena set out to rendezvous with Pea Eye and the others in Mexico, but on the way, Call falls for a trap set by Joey Garza. As Call tends to a horse that garza had hobbled as bait, Garza shoots him in the leg. Faced with the same choice Gus faced years before, Woodrow has Lorena cut his leg off and take him down to Mexico. In Mexico, a doctor determines that he will have to lose an arm as well. Due to his condition, he is unable to finish the job of killing Joey Garza. Garza manages to kill Brookshire, and fatally wound his mother as well, before being killed by Pea Eye. In the end, Pea Eye and Lorena adopt Maria Garza's other children, and allow Call to come home and live with them. Judge Roy Bean (c. ...

Call is played in this film by James Garner. Also in the film, he loses only a leg, not his arm as well. James Garner (born James Scott Baumgarner on April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor. ...