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Po Campo is the Mexican cook who Call hires in Austin to join the cattle drive after Bolivar leaves. Po Campo walks all the way to Montana, refusing to ride because he claims it’s uncivilized to ride animals. His slow pace gives him wisdom and an appreciation for life that he shares with Newt whenever he gets the opportunity. Everyone quickly comes to appreciate his friendliness. And his skill: Po Campo adeptly forages for things like wild onions, wild plums, and birds’ eggs on the trail, and he’s such a good cook that the hands don’t complain even when he serves them things like fried grasshoppers. His history is marked by tragedy: Blue Duck killed his sons, and Po Campo himself killed his wife, although he doesn’t offer many details about why. Po Campo makes it all the way to Montana with the drive, where he and Hugh Auld quickly become close friends.
Po Campo Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Po Campo or refer to Po Campo . 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 88
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“You beat any woman I ever saw for talking the starch out of a man,” he said, a little perplexed. Despite all the complication, he felt his old love for her returning with its old power. So much feeling flooded him, just looking at her, that he felt shaky. It was a puzzle to him that such a thing could happen, for it was true she had become rather boney and her face had thinned too much, and certainly she was as taxing as a woman could be. And yet the feeling made him shaky.
“Think I’m rough, Gus?” she asked with a smile.
“I ain’t been scorched by lightning, but I doubt it could be hotter than being scorched by you,” he said.
“Still think you’d have been up to being married to me?”
“I don’t know,” he said truthfully.
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Po Campo Quotes in Lonesome Dove
The Lonesome Dove quotes below are all either spoken by Po Campo or refer to Po Campo . 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 88
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“You beat any woman I ever saw for talking the starch out of a man,” he said, a little perplexed. Despite all the complication, he felt his old love for her returning with its old power. So much feeling flooded him, just looking at her, that he felt shaky. It was a puzzle to him that such a thing could happen, for it was true she had become rather boney and her face had thinned too much, and certainly she was as taxing as a woman could be. And yet the feeling made him shaky.
“Think I’m rough, Gus?” she asked with a smile.
“I ain’t been scorched by lightning, but I doubt it could be hotter than being scorched by you,” he said.
“Still think you’d have been up to being married to me?”
“I don’t know,” he said truthfully.
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