Larry McMurtry's Dead Man's Walk

Young Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Augustus McRae join with military expedition whose goal it is to annex Sante Fe on behalf of the new Texas Republic.

A series of disasters overtakes Colonel Cobb and his ambition to annex Sante Fe including dust storms, prairie fires, Indians, and the Mexican army.

After surrendering to the Mexican army, the expedition's captors march them across 500 miles of desert to New Mexico.