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Maybe this will be made clear in second half but I am now past the introduction of Blue Duck and Gus promises to buy Lorena a rail ticket to SF and they guys went for drinks at the saloon in SA. They didn’t exactly have CC’s back then and it would be easy for all their saving to be pilfered, no?

On my second reading. In many of the conversations, McMurtry’s narrararor switches our protagonists names. I wonder if this was based on context or just arbitrary?