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Sep 18, 2023 · With “Lonesome Dove,” the best-selling cattle-drive epic that won him a Pulitzer in 1986, McMurtry believed that he had written a book “permeated with criticism of the West from start to...
Apr 2, 2021 · Larry McMurtry, best-known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Lonesome Dove" and other books about the American West, died last week at the age of 84. He wrote more than 30 novels and ...
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Apr 22, 2020 · McMurtry’s screenplay, “Streets of Laredo,” never got produced, and after Wayne’s death, McMurtry bought the rights back and began turning the idea into a novel. ( Lonesome Dove contains some character names and plot elements from Bandolero!, a 1968 Western starring Stewart and written by James Lee Barrett from a story by Stanley L. Hough.)
- The Trailhead: Lonesome Dove Baptist Church
- Hell’s Half Acre/White Elephant Saloon
- Old City Greenwood Cemetery
While the trailhead of the Hat Creek Outfit’s route begins in the fictional Lonesome Dove, a small town at the Texas-Mexico border, the real starting point for the book is in Southlake, about 25 miles from Fort Worth. Here stands the church from which the novel derives its title. Established in 1846, the Lonesome Dove Baptist Churchis the oldest ch...
Along the windswept, violent route that the Hat Creek Outfit traveled, a principal stop was in Fort Worth. During the 1870s, the city was severely depleted from the Civil War, but the members of the outfit would have seen the courthouse under construction, a handful of general stores, a few banks, and saloons. Because the novel specifically mention...
The Old City Greenwood Cemetery holds significant meaning for the plot of Lonesome Dove: It is the final resting spot for Bose Ikard and Oliver Loving, whose personalities provided McMurtry with the inspiration for the characters of Joshua Deets (played by Danny Glover) and Gus McCrae. Although in the novel Deets was killed in Wyoming, fans do not ...
Mar 26, 2021 · Larry McMurtry, a prolific writer who wrote mostly about the American West and who won a Pulitzer Prize for the sweeping novel "Lonesome Dove," died Thursday, according to a family spokesperson ...
Mar 26, 2021 · Lonesome Dove, his 1985 novel about Texas Rangers turned cattle herders in the 1870s, won a Pulitzer Prize and became an acclaimed TV miniseries. Terms of Endearment, written in 1975, was also ...
Mar 26, 2021 · ANDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: Larry McMurtry's big, Pulitzer Prize-winning book 1985's "Lonesome Dove" followed retired Texas Rangers at the end of the 1800s. It was turned into a miniseries in...
