Larry McMurtry wanted Lonesome Dove to upend the traditional western novel. But the book, which was published forty years ago this month, elicited a different reaction than he expected. “To the public ...
“Lonesome Dove” — the nearly 1,000-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning Western novel first published in 1985 — is experiencing a resurgence thanks to Stephen King, TikTok and cowboys being in fashion. Larry ...