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In the Emmy Award-winning miniseries Lonesome Dove, the characters Augustus McCrae (Robert Duvall) and Pea Eye Parker (Timothy Scott), have a confrontation with Indians in Montana, while on a scout, which turns out to be Gus McCrae's final engagement.

Pea Eye could not be sure that he had learned anything about Indians except that he was scared of them, and he had learned that long before he ever saw one… "Which Indians is these we're fighting?" he asked. "They didn't introduce themselves, Pea," Augustus said. "It might be written on these arrows. I'm going to be one-legged if we don't get this other arrow out pretty soon."
-Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" novel.

   "Tim Scott didn't want Pea Eye to be a buffoon. Like when he and Gus are in the cave holding off the Indians. All of a sudden Duvall yells in Comanche, and Tim jumps. And later Duvall tells him to head south, and Tim says, "South?" Duvall responds, "That way yonder. If you run into a polar bear, you went the wrong way." That's all funny, but you never lose the scary aspects of their predicament. Or the moment when Pea is wandering around on the plain…In almost every one of those scenes, there's a point where it could have fallen off the bridge. But Tim gave Pea such dignity."
-BILL WITTLIFF

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Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series and the third installment in the series chronologically. It was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which won both critical and popular acclaim. McMurtry went on to write a sequel, Streets of Laredo (1993), and two prequels, Dead Man's Walk (1995) and Comanche Moon (1997), all of which were also adapted as TV series. This six-hour miniseries, based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry, revitalized both the miniseries and Western genres, both of which had been considered dead for several years. Lonesome Dove earned 18 Emmy nominations and inspired a pair of miniseries sequels as well as two attempts at an ongoing television series.

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Has Robert Duvall ever done anything less than terrific? Superior television in every respect and one of the best offerings to come out of America in ages.
-Doug Anderson

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