It was written 15 years earlier by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdonavich. Lonesome Dove was originally a much shorter screenplay.
'If you read only one Western novel in your life, read this one. From the author of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, and screenplay writer of Brokeback Mountain, this is the third novel in the McMurtry's Lonesome Dove quartet, following on from Comanche Moon and prequels Streets of Laredo. Legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers - Lonesome Dove is the central, enduring American experience dramatically recreated in a magnificent story of heroism and love of honour, loyalty and betrayal. More than a love story, more than an adventure, Lonesome Dov e is an epic: a monumental novel which embraces the spirit of the last defiant wilderness of America. It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived. It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande. From Texas to Montana, it follows cowboys on a grueling cattle drive through the wilderness. Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning novel is a powerful, triumphant portrayal of the American West as it really was. no other has ever approached the accomplishment of Lonesome Dove ' - USA Today
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