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- I began with Call and we end with him. Though Gus gets a great number of the best lines, Woodrow gets, without question, the most powerful, most quoted line of all.
- Gus lays out a prescription for Lorie’s future happiness. She is obsessed with going to San Francisco, and he wants her to understand that that dream is likely a misguided one.
- This one is a tie – so close I couldn’t separate them.
- A touching line, uttered by Gus as he lay dying. He says to Woodrow: “It’s been quite a party ain’t it? "
Augustus McCrae is a mix of the two. A man with "a voice like no other" (86.46), he loves to talk and argue more than anything, which makes him the primary source of entertainment for the Hat Creek Cattle Company in the sleepy town of Lonesome Dove. If you can even call it a town. Gus is clearly bored in Lonesome Dove, and he has to entertain ...
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The two men talk and spend their night listening to music. The next day, Dish is offered a job to go to Mexico to buy some horses. Dish agrees to go to Mexico and the man who was supposed to go with him, Deets, enters accompanied by a man named Jake. Jake was a former ranger who knew almost everyone in the little town.
Overview. Lonesome Dove is a 1985 novel by American author Larry McMurtry. Chronologically, it is the third book in the Lonesome Dove series, although it was published before its two prequels, Dead Man’s Walk (1995) and Comanche Moon (1997). One of the most celebrated novels in the Western genre, Lonesome Dove tells the story of former Texas ...
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series and the third installment in the series chronologically. It was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which ...
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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 expert on “Lonesome Dove,” people often ask me what I figure are the most loved quotes from the miniseries. If I were wise, I would just say any of a hundred quotes could be someone’s number one, and leave ...
The novel is full of energy. Its language, both in narrative and dialogue, is a lively vernacular, full of unexpected metaphors and turns of phrase, and there is a considerable amount of mellow ...
