Lonesome Dove
(2010, original release: 1985)
By:
McMurtry, Larry
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/MCMURTRY,L
6 Holds on 2 Copies
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, [2010]
EDITION
[Various editions]
DESCRIPTION
858 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781439195260, 1439195269, 9780671504205, 0671504207, 9780606351140, 0606351140, 9781439195260
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1985
Chronicles a cattle drive in the nineteenth century from Texas to Montana, and follows the lives of Gus and Call, the cowboys heading the drive, Gus's woman, Lorena, and Blue Duck, a sinister Indian renegade
Also published: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, [2025]. 858 pages
The drive is a risk, sure, but it's a part of the American Dream, a chance to carve a new life out of the last remaining wilderness
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1986