re: Lonesome Dove: Gus McCrae, Jake Spoon, and noosed ropes tied to trees (SPOILERS)

I sometimes wish McMurty would have written the books in order so that everything could have been filmed in order starting with Dead Man's Walk and finishing with Streets of Laredo. Then I think would we appreciate the cinema that was Lonesome Dove it that had happened?

For instance had I experienced David Arquette as Gus in Dead Man's Walk I probably never would have watched LD.