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Joe Boot is the son of Elmira and Dee Boot. Clearly unwanted and unloved by his mother, he quickly strikes up a friendship with his stepfather, July Johnson, after July marries Elmira. Joe wants to be a cowboy and spends most of his free time practicing his roping skills. Elmira makes July take Joe with him to Texas in search of Jake Spoon. It’s there that Joe dies at the hands of Blue Duck.
Joe Boot Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Joe Boot or refer to Joe Boot . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 58
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July didn’t want to see it. He knew he had to, but he didn’t want to.
He felt a terrible need to turn things back, all the way back to the time when he and Roscoe and Joe and Elmira had all been in Arkansas. He knew it could never be. Something had happened which he would never be free of. He had even lost the chance to stay and die with his people, though Captain McCrae had offered him that chance. “I’d feel better in my mind if you’d stay with your part,” he had said.
He had not stayed, but when he had gone, he hadn’t fought, either. He had done nothing but ride twice over the same stretch of prairie, while death had come to both camps.
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Joe Boot Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Joe Boot or refer to Joe Boot . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 58
Quotes
July didn’t want to see it. He knew he had to, but he didn’t want to.
He felt a terrible need to turn things back, all the way back to the time when he and Roscoe and Joe and Elmira had all been in Arkansas. He knew it could never be. Something had happened which he would never be free of. He had even lost the chance to stay and die with his people, though Captain McCrae had offered him that chance. “I’d feel better in my mind if you’d stay with your part,” he had said.
He had not stayed, but when he had gone, he hadn’t fought, either. He had done nothing but ride twice over the same stretch of prairie, while death had come to both camps.
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