Larry McMurtry
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume Prequel 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first prequel in Larry McMurtry's beloved Lonesome Dove series features the early adventures of Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction.
As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short) have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only the blazing heat and raging tornadoes, roiling rivers and merciless...
As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short) have much to learn about survival in a land fraught with perils: not only the blazing heat and raging tornadoes, roiling rivers and merciless...
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The acclaimed sequel to Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize–winning classic Lonesome Dove, and the culmination of the legendary western saga, follows the further adventures of these beloved characters as they reckon with their past choices and uncertain futures in the rapidly changing American West.
Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding...
Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding...
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journeying up the Missouri River in 1830, the wealthy Berrybenders encounter the challenges of the untamed American West before Tasmin Berrybender falls in love with frontiersman and part-time preacher Jim Snow.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her wealthy but eccentric family as they make their way through the unexplored wild West during the 1830s, when the clash between the powerful Indian tribes of the Missouri and the encroaching white Americans is on the verge of becoming a full-blown tragedy.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Tasmin and her family find themselves under arrest in Mexican Santa Fe, from which they are led on the terrifying "Dead Man's Walk" to Vera Cruz, while Jim Snow, accompanied by Kit Carson, journeys to New Orleans.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Raising her young son, Monty, Tasmin Berrybender hopes to turn him into an English gentleman despite his life on the trail toward Santa Fe, an endeavor that is compromised by painful occurrences in the lives of Tasmin's husband and father.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency, and Hud, his unscrupulous stepson. Caught in the middle is the narrator, Homer's young grandson Lonnie, who is as much drawn to his grandfather’s strength of character as he is to Hud's hedonism and materialism.
13) Books: A Memoir
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Language
English
Description
Larry McMurtry is known to be reclusive and extremely private, rarely giving interviews or making public appearances. Audiences are therefore sure to be eager to read this intimate and surprisingly personal memoir of the brilliant writer's love affair with books. McMurtry writes about his life as a boy growing up in a largely bookless world; as a young man devouring the world of literature; as a fledgling writer and family man; and as one of America's
...14) Lonesome Dove
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness.
Journey to the dusty little town of Lonesome Dove, where retired Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call undertake a perilous cattle drive to...
Journey to the dusty little town of Lonesome Dove, where retired Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call undertake a perilous cattle drive to...
15) Comanche Moon
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume Prequel 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
The second prequel, following Dead Man's Walk, to Larry McMurtry's classic novel Lonesome Dove charts the harrowing careers of Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call as they fight foes throughout the Texas territory and their own demons, setting up the events of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic.
The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comanche...
The second prequel, following Dead Man's Walk, to Larry McMurtry's classic novel Lonesome Dove charts the harrowing careers of Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call as they fight foes throughout the Texas territory and their own demons, setting up the events of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic.
The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comanche...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The Last Picture Show is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house alive. Adapted into the Oscar-winning film, this masterpiece immortalizes the lives of the hardscrabble residents who are threatened by the inexorable forces of the modern world.
"McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold."—New York Times Book Review
"McMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold."—New York Times Book Review
Publisher
Platinum Disc Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004, 1995
Language
English
Description
A story about the aging Calamity Jane, content to remember the excitement of her past and relating it in letters to her daughter, until old friend Buffalo Bill Cody comes to town and makes her an offer she can't refuse.
19) Lonesome Dove
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Epic western about two former Texas Rangers who leave the south Texas town of Lonesome Dove on a cattle drive to the ranch country of Montana.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man’s extraordinary double life.
After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is...
After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is...
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