Longtime journalist David Streitfeld wrote the biography “Western Star” and says McMurtry identified strongly as a Texan but ...

Set in the mid-to-late 1870s American West, Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove is described as “the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness.” The story brings readers to the tiny ...

Some of the greatest lines in history are said quietly, as part of a simple conversation, yet they carry profound meaning and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the '80s, most people thought Westerns were relics of the past, but the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove proved them very wrong.

Taylor Sheridan certainly remembers his. The Fort Worth-bred screenwriter, producer and director, who is perhaps best known as the co-creator of Yellowstone, was 19 when he discovered McMurtry's opus ...

After Duvall's death, many fans are looking back on his most iconic role as Augustus “Gus” McCrae in 1989's Lonesome Dove, and therefore, of course, his relationship with his costar, who played ...

With the tragic passing of legendary actor Robert Duvall, you've likely made it your mission to revisit some of his greatest hits. If that's the case, then Lonesome Dove ought to be one of the first ...

Between its dusty sweeping backdrop; epic tale of unlikely friendship, love and loss; complex characters; and enduring spirit of adventure, there are many reasons to love Larry McMurtry's 1985 ...