Between its dusty sweeping backdrop; epic tale of unlikely friendship, love and loss; complex characters; and enduring spirit ...

“Lonesome Dove” — the nearly 1,000-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning Western novel first published in 1985 — is experiencing a ...

I love to read books that comprise a series. I enjoy being part of both the development of the characters in the story, and the development of the craft of the writer as s/he grows while writing.

It was originally written about 1971 for John Wayne, James Stewart and Henry Fonda, with Peter Bogdanovich, fresh from his ...

After Augustus McCrae came out on the porch to see the blue pigs eating a rattlesnake, he had to wait a spell before setting out on what would become the most famous cattle drive in American ...

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Larry McMurtry, the iconic and celebrated Texas author who redefined the Western with his novel "Lonesome Dove," died Thursday night of heart failure. He was 84. Publicist Amanda Lundberg confirmed ...

Larry McMurtry, who won an Oscar for penning Brokeback Mountain, earned a nomination for The Last Picture Show and authored books that spawned Emmy winner Lonesome Dove and Best Picture Oscar winner ...

The lawmaker from Frisco has rallied right-wingers by promising to remove “sexually explicit” books from shelves. But he may lose them by targeting a beloved Texan classic. State representative Jared ...

That UT Press has dropped Bill Wittliff's A Book of Photographs From Lonesome Dove into the middle of a much-ballyhooed Western movie revival is probably a coincidence: Lonesome Dove has always been ...