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...Santa Fe in chains after an agonizing mountain trek. The novel's plan is not much different, in fact, from that of Lonesome Dove or Streets of Laredo: an incredibly difficult journey that no prudent soul would have undertaken, with a psychopathic Comanche (Blue Duck in Lonesome Dove, Buffalo Hump here) skulking in the shadows to pick off stragglers...
...rough calculation, there are about three decades of imprudence and dusty commotion to get through before they become the leathery, intermittently shrewd men of Lonesome Dove. The prequel hasn't really completed its job. Obviously a postprequel or two is required before the central novel can decently begin. Buffalo Hump still lurks. McCrae seems about to marry, though surely not if the sly heartbreaker in the general store is thinking clearly. And the great-grandlitters of pigs not yet born and rattlers not yet hatched must colonize the town of Lonesome Dove, a backwater that no one, least...
...Mentally, there is a big difference between two and three and three and two," Snowden said. "Getting over the .500 hump is important...
...grand scheme of things, getting over the hump from a mediocre team to a good one is exactly what Harvard wants...
...terms of the actual outcomes of the competitions, what is perhaps more important in getting the Crimson over the proverbial hump is the crop of incoming freshman players...