Much better than Dad Man's Walk because it devotes more time to character as opposed to being a collection of action sequences - though there's still plenty of action, massacres and torture (was McMurtry having a deal downer of a time in the 90s?) It devotes more time to women too - Clara, Maggie, a captured white woman - and the Indians - Buffale Hump is still terrifying but more nuanced and now is up against an even more sadistic Mexican.
McMurtry features a couple of his supermen in this - the mighty Mexican warrior who loves torture, plus Inez Scull, the tough, academically brilliant adventurer.
Part three, after the rescue of Scull, is very much like Lonesome Dove, more elegaic, less hard core violent.
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