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Boone's Lick
Shay is a 15 year old boy living in Boone's Lick, Missouri, in the wild, wild west days. Wild Bill Hickok is a frequent visitor as other wild charact...

Comanche Moon
This is the immediate prequel to Lonesome Dove and while it does not rise to the qualitative heights that Dove does, it is great fun to revisit Gus an...

Crazy Horse
Master storyteller Larry McMurtry, most famous for the Lonesome Dove books, wrote this very slim biography of Crazy Horse, the Sioux warrior who battl...

Dead Man's Walk
This is the first installment (in character life-lines, not in writing) of the Lonesome Dove series. In it we are introduced to Gus and Woodrow when t...

Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry's vast, wild epic of a cattle drive that is something more is full of action and unforgettable characters. The story follows two long...

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Paradise
Larry McMurtry is on a voyage aboard the freighter Aranui carrying American and European passengers around French Polynesia, specifically the Marquesa...



Texasville
Duane came from little, managed to amass a fortune, then, thanks to an oil glut, comes close to losing it all, figuritively and mentally. His childre...

The Last Picture Show
Excellent coming of age story set in small Texas town in the late 1950's. The minor characters are as vividly drawn as the three central characters. ...

Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
In this book, Larry McMurtry (author of such great novels as The Last Picture Show and Lonesome Dove) interweaves tales about his family with stories ...

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