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Short Book, Sorry

Larry McMurtry’s new memoir plays it close to the vest.

If you’ve never read or seen Lonesome Dove . . .

. . . or if you did so many years ago that your memory of it has grown hazy, this brief synopsis will help you navigate our oral history.

A Tale Of Two Endings

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 script reveals how and why Bill Wittliff strayed from Larry McMurtry’s design.

True West

Twenty-five years ago, Larry McMurtry published a novel called Lonesome Dove—and Texas hasn’t looked the same since. Listen in as more than thirty writers, critics, producers, and actors, from Peter Bogdonavich and Dave Hickey to Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall, and Anjelica Huston, tell the stories behind the book (and the miniseries) that changed the way we see the West.

Breaking Into Showbiz

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