Round 11: Tossup 14

In this novel, a bandit fulfills his promise to fly by tackling a jail guard out of a second story window. A 2000 preface by this novel’s author derides it as “a kind of Gone With the Wind.” One of this novel’s protagonists paints a rambling sign with the Latin motto “uva uvam videno varia fit” and watches water moccasins swarm an Irish hired hand as he tries to cross a river. In this novel, the unhappy ex-prostitute Elmira runs away from her husband, the (*) sheriff of Fort Smith, who finds his stepson and deputy murdered by the bandit Blue Duck. Streets of Laredo is a sequel to this novel, in which the wanted gambler Jake Spoon returns to a horse trading post run by two retired Texas rangers. (10[1])For 10 points, Captain Call and Gus McCrae lead a cattle drive to Montana in what epic Western by Larry McMurtry? ■END■

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