Lonesome Dove

Texas ranger saga

Lonesome Dove is a 1985 novel by Larry McMurtry, an epic Western following two aging Texas Rangers driving cattle from Texas to Montana.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning book spawned a celebrated television miniseries and sequels.

The title refers to the fictional Texas town where the story begins: They watched Lonesome Dove disappear behind them.

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open range · Texas · cattle · cattle drive · Gus · Woodrow · dusty · frontier · horseback · prairie · herd · saddle · campfire · saloon · rangers · epic · sunset · wilderness

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Elderly love remembered

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HBO series about Manhattan singles

urban fiction · cyberpunk · Neuromancer · drawing room drama · Gossip Girl

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short story · domestic drama · bottle episode · vignette · prose poem

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lonesome, lone, loner, lonely, loneliness, aloneness, alone, dove, doves

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Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG