Its jarring how the prequel books dont line up to what happened in Lonesome DoveThe events are all jumbled or just plain wrongMaggie didnt die in Lonesome DoveClara wasnt chased by jake and she wasnt away at school when the Indian raid happened and she didnt rush back to the store etcIts egregiousHow hard is it to keep story threads consistant?
In Lonesome Dove, Gus says to Call "As I recall, you was born in Scotland." Then the prequels describe his childhood in America.
McMurtry was a terrible writer even by genre standards. Lonesome Dove was a weird fluke where everything aligned perfectly with his random choices and resulted in a well developed and poignant theme, which McMurtry denied the existence of but happily accepted the Pulitzer for.
