Blue Duck is half-white, half-Native American and an old outlaw that Gus and Call have hunted when they were Texas Rangers. After Lorena is kidnapped, Jake runs with a band of horse thieves and ...

From Texas Standard: Spoiler alert! In case you've been under a rock in Ogallala for the last three decades, this story contains spoilers for "Lonesome Dove." Since I am, like many Texans, an amateur ...

Somewhere down the line in ”Lonesome Dove,” one of the two main protagonists, Augustus McCrae, glumly reminds his onetime Texas Ranger colleague Capt. Woodrow F. Call that years ago they had ”chased ...

Even if following 2,600 cattle and two pigs on a 2,500-mile march to Montana isn’t your idea of fun, you’ll want to saddle up for Lonesome Dove, a magnificent tapestry of thundering herds, Big Sky ...

Though the television adaptation of Lonesome Dove hewed closely to the novel’s spirit, it struck a very different note in its final moments. Below, an annotation of the last pages of the book and the ...

Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove Hat Creek cattle-drive outfit is back on the trail – but in Streets of Laredo, McMurtry is traveling a different sort of path. In the sequel to the Pulitzer ...

COMANCHE MOON. Larry McMurtry. Simon & Schuster. $28.95. The latest installment of the adventures of Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call, the heroes of Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic, ...

You can’t fault Larry McMurtry’s nerve. His novel “Lonesome Dove” (1985) was one of the most successful books of our time, winning critical favor, the Pulitzer Prize and millions of devoted readers.

The most celebrated writers of Westerns, Ernest Haycox, Zane Grey, Max Brand and Louis L’Amour above all, reinforced the frontier myths that were shaped early on by James Fenimore Cooper the noble ...