Larry McMurtry
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The youth of a small town in mid-twentieth-century Texas search for ways to escape boredom and experience life and love.
Author
Language
English
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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
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
The life of Charles Floyd, an Oklahoma farm boy turned bandit in the 1920s. The newspapers dubbed him pretty boy because for a bank robber he was unusually kind. He became a folk hero and the FBI's public enemy No. 1. McMurtry is author of Lonesome Dove.
5) Custer
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Language
English
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Description
In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history--George Armstrong Custer. McMurtry also argues that Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found in its impact on our politics and policy, and the epic...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Traces the rich and varied friendship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday from the town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
9) Zeke and Ned
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A case of adultery spirals into racial violence in 1870s Oklahoma Territory. The story begins when a white man seeks justice because a halfbreed is sleeping with his wife. There is a shootout, the races take side and blood flows.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2004.
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
Lonesome Dove saga volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Pits legendary Texas Ranger Woodrow Call against his deadliest adversary ever.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
One of the best women directors in Hollywood is on top of her game except when it comes to the men in her life. Trying to balance her two unlikely lovers and a supporting cast of Hollywood eccentrics, she sets out to create movie magic.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When twenty-two-year-old Nellie Courtright and her teenage brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by their father's suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever resourceful, becomes the town's telegrapher. Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six...
20) Comanche moon
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume Second Prequel
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, now in their middle years, are just beginning to deal with the enigmas of the adult heart - Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe; and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him. Two proud but very different men, they enlist with a Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief; Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief; and a deadly Mexican bandit king with...
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