Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, Book 3)

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Long experience had taught him that there was no winning arguments with Augustus, even in cases where there was a simple right and wrong at issue. We have the leisure to observe them carefully, and we are glad that we have come along for the "drive. My paperback version is nearly 900 pages long, and with that kind of heft, you might expect McMurtry to say something profound about the complex arc of our national history. I am watching the 1989 TV series again with my kids 10 and 13) and we all nearly cried at the end of the first episode.

The plot itself is wide-ranging, with several disconnected storylines gradually merging into climatic moments). Some are likely to stay with me, at least in parts, some characters more than others, but I truly enjoyed the journey though every story. Some of the cattle were so weak the cowboys had to dismount, , pull their tails and shout at them to get up.

Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. The author to my mind introduces many many dramatic narrative scenes but never spends more than a few pages on it, making it have a lack of depth to it. Lorena is devastated by Gus' death and refuses to open her letter; standing silently by his coffin day and night, she suddenly faints.

The bug couldn't find its way out, but it could move around enough to upset the vaquero, who persuaded the young doctor to try and flush it. I guess they forgot us, like they forgot the Alamo,” August observes after the owner of a bar tries to kick him out for demanding respectful treatment. Gus, rebuffed by Clara and no longer Lorena's sole caretaker, decides to continue on the cattle drive and see the journey to Montana through to its end.This book does not pull any punches when it comes to setting the mood for what life was really like as the American West was settled. I thought I had written about a harsh time and some pretty harsh people, but to the public at large, I had produced something nearer to an idealization; instead of a poor man's Inferno, filled with violence, faithlessness and betrayal, I had actually delivered a kind of Gone With The Wind of the West, a turnabout I'll be mulling over for a long, long time. He wasn't a big man -- in fact, was barely middle-sized -- but when you walked up and looked him in the eye it didn't seem that way. Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was.