Matt Jaeger’s Reviews > Lonesome Dove > Status Update

P. 146. - “He hadn’t meant to smell her, and hadn’t made any effort to, and yet the very night after it happened the first thing he remembered was that Mary had smelled different from any other wet thing he had ever smelled.”

McMurtry’s cowboys are as fragile and naive as the rest of us, creating a brilliant depiction of the changing landscape of masculinity.