Larry McMurtry
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lonesome Dove is a dusty little Texas town where heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Native Americans and settlers embody the spirit and defiance of the last wilderness. Larry McMurtry's American epic, set in the late 19th century, tells the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, a drive that represents not only a daring foolhardy adventure, but a part of the American Dream for everyone involved. Lee Horsley, one of TV's most popular
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon, he returns to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove. Evoking the greatest characters and legends of the Old Wild West, here McMurtry tells the story of the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two...
5) Crazy Horse
Author
Publisher
Viking/Lipper Book
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
148 p.; 20 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
347p. 25cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
175 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Literary Life, author Larry McMurtry opens up about the triumphs and trials of his abundant literary career. Relaying his early interest in writing that began with a creative writing class at Rice University, to a career that boasts over 40 novels and an Academy Award-winning screenplay, this intimate portrait of the author offers a glimpse into an intelligent, honest and undeniably profound voice in contemporary American Literature.
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
2-disc collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (373 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Augustus McCrae and Woodrow call, longtime friends and former Texas Rangers, steal over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border and recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to Montana.