Lonesome Dove Summary
Larry McMurtry

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Lonesome Dove Summary

Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, is an adventure from beginning to end. This epic story will make the reader laugh out loud and cry unabashed as it journeys from Lonesome Dove, Texas to Montana on a cattle drive. The Hat Creek Cattle Company, half experienced and half young men new to the trail, are bound and determined to find unpopulated land to start a ranch. Led by Captain Woodrow F. Call...

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Encyclopedia Articles (1)

Lonesome Dove - Larry Mcmurtry - 1985

8,278 words, approx. 28 pages

Lonesome Dove - Larry Mcmurtry - 1985 Introduction Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove (1985) is a gritty novel of the American West. However, the author does not attempt to g... Read more

Larry McMurtry Biographies (5)

Larry (Jeff) McMurtry

1,931 words, approx. 7 pages

LARRY McMURTRY is closely identified with Texas. All six of his novels and a collection of essays (In a Narrow Grave) reflect life in his native state. Born 3 June 1936 in Wichita Falls, he was educat... Read more

Larry (Jeff) McMurtry

16,414 words, approx. 55 pages

[This entry was updated by Sarah English (Meredith College) from the entry by John Gerlach (Cleveland State University) in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Series, pp. 137-150.]La... Read more

Larry (Jeff) McMurtry

12,195 words, approx. 41 pages

Larry McMurtry's work is marked by his imaginative connections with the American West. Drawn to place, McMurtry demonstrates in his work the mythic pattern of escape and return to his "blood's country... Read more

Larry McMurtry

10,691 words, approx. 36 pages

Biography EssayAlthough Larry McMurtry has moved beyond the status of a minor regional writer, he is still closely identified with Texas. His first six novels and a collection of essays (In a Narrow G... Read more

Larry Mcmurtry

4,741 words, approx. 16 pages

"I remember laboring, around 1971, on a screen offering for John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda, a bittersweet, end-of-the-West Western, in which no scalps were taken and no victories were won,... Read more

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Steve Fore

10,307 words, approx. 35 pages

568 words, approx. 2 pages

People live and can visit remote places were they can find the natural beauty of the world. In Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry demonstrates the themes of natural beauty and remote plac... Read more

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