Comanche Moon is a 2008 American television miniseries, an adaptation of the 1997 novel of the same name. Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae are in their middle years, serving as Texas Rangers. In terms of the Lonesome Dove series' storyline, this account serves as a prequel to the Lonesome Dove miniseries, and a sequel to Dead Man's Walk. It first aired on CBS beginning Sunday, January 13, and continuing Tuesday, January 15, and Wednesday, January 16, 2008. Plot Part 1 The series starts in The Republic of Texas in the early 19th century with a massacre of Comanche chiefs, observed by a young Buffalo Hump. The opening coda explains that The Texas Rangers "were formed as a volunteer troop to contain the Comanche" and indicates the locale is north-west Texas in 1858. Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae are among a party of eight men, led by Captain Scull and supported by a Kickapoo scout (Famous Shoes). They seek to capture Kicking Wolf, who is hiding in the camp of Buffalo Hump. Meanwhile, in Austin, Clara Forsythe runs her shop and is visited by Maggie Tilton; the two become closer while waiting for the rangers to return. In the nearby mansion, Inez Scull briefly seduces a young ranger, Jake Spoon. The tables turn on the Rangers as the Captain's horse is stolen by Kicking Wolf. Scull departs with Famous Shoes to retrieve it, deputizing Call and McCrae to take the party back to Austin. The party comes across a burnt out wagon and are able to rescue a traumatized mother and her young daughters from some Comanche before returning to Austin. Separating from Famous Shoes at a river crossing to the Sierra, Scull then tracks his horse alone towards Yellow Cliffs in northern Mexico, a known slavers den, and finds an injured Kicking Wolf but no horse. Buffalo Hump then plans a combined and perhaps final raid to the ocean for all Comanche. In Austin, having met the governor, McCrae and Forsythe reunite, as do Call and Tilton (who tells Call that she is carrying his child). Meanwhile, Scull is captured by Ahumado's men and put into a wooden cage. Call and McCrae, now confirmed as captains, are then tasked with retrieving Scull just as the Comanche army departs. Part 2 The show opens with a Comanche attack on Austin. Property losses are extensive, most of the men are killed, and