Lonesome Dove (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry McMurtry
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Western fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Cattle, Nineteenth century, Prostitution or prostitutes, Native Americans or American Indians, Cowboys or cowgirls, Outlaws, Frontier or pioneer life
- Locales: Texas, Montana
McMurtry dedicates Lonesome Dove to the nine McMurtry boys (his uncles and father) and tips his hat to Charles Goodnight, Teddy Blue, and the other cowboys of the Old West. The cattlemen helped civilize the West and, in the process, created a mythology that continues to shape the United States. That powerful American myth grew from a very brief era in United States history immediately after the Civil War, a twenty-year period of open range and cattle drives. That period and way of life gave birth to all the dominant images of the Old West.
McMurtry has his cowboys take...
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