Larry McMurtry
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
Dead Man's Walk is a powerful prequel to best-selling author Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. Gus McRae and Woodrow Call are still teenagers when they enlist as Texas Rangers. Soon they are roaming the untamed West, coming of age while they cheat death. Under the command of a former pirate, the young men ride for Santa Fe, where the mission is to forcibly take the city out of Mexican hands.
4) Sin killer
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 1
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Description
Journeying up the Missouri River in 1830, the wealthy Berrybenders encounter the challenges of the untamed American West before Tasmin Berrybender falls in love with frontiersman and part-time preacher Jim Snow.
7) Crazy Horse
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Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
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Description
Reveals the essence of this brilliant warrior-hero while capturing the poignant passing of an era and offering new understanding of the mythic Crazy Horse and what he stood for.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
"If Chaucer were a Texan writing today . . . this is how he would have written and this is how he would have felt."— New York Times
In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realities of the American West play out in a mesmerizing love triangle. Stubborn rancher Gideon Fry, resilient Molly Taylor, and awkward ranch hand Johnny McCloud struggle with love and...9) Custer
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history--George Armstrong Custer. McMurtry also argues that Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found in its impact on our politics and policy, and the epic...
10) Pretty Boy Floyd
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car.
Written by Pulitzer Prize–winner Larry McMurtry and his writing partner, Diana Ossana, Pretty Boy Floyd traces the wild career of the legendary American folk hero Charley Floyd, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's robbing you at gunpoint....
Written by Pulitzer Prize–winner Larry McMurtry and his writing partner, Diana Ossana, Pretty Boy Floyd traces the wild career of the legendary American folk hero Charley Floyd, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's robbing you at gunpoint....
11) Zeke and Ned
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Full of adventure, grace, and tragedy, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana tell the story of two powerful Cherokee warriors searching for the future of Indian Territory.
Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors—two proud, passionate men whose remarkable quest to carve a future out of Indian Territory east of the Arkansas River after the Civil War is not only history, but legend....
Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors—two proud, passionate men whose remarkable quest to carve a future out of Indian Territory east of the Arkansas River after the Civil War is not only history, but legend....
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Living quietly in her friend Dora's Miles City whorehouse, Calamity Jane is plunged back into one final, bittersweet adventure by the arrival of her old friend and rival, Buffalo Bill Cody. Yearning for excitement and good hunting, two mountain men and an old Indian scout find adventure when they meet an aging Calamity Jane and find they must resort to performing in Bill Cody's Wild West show in order to survive.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Raising her young son, Monty, Tasmin Berrybender hopes to turn him into an English gentleman despite his life on the trail toward Santa Fe, an endeavor that is compromised by painful occurrences in the lives of Tasmin's husband and father.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Continuing story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the unexplored wild West of the 1830s, at that point in time when Lewis and Clark are still a living memory, and when the clash between the powerful Indian tribes of the Missouri and the encroaching white Americans is about to turn into full-blown tragedy.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 4
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives, Tasmin and her family are under arrest in Mexican Santa Fe. Tasmin, who would once have followed her husband anywhere, is no longer even sure she likes him, or knows where to go to next. Captain Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame, is puzzled by the great changes sweeping over the West, replacing red men and buffalo with towns and farms.
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 2
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Pits legendary Texas Ranger Woodrow Call against his deadliest adversary ever.
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume Second Prequel
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
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Description
Two Texas Rangers fight Indians and bandits while trying to sort affairs with their women. One is Gus McCrae, a hard-drinking womanizer jilted by his love, the other is sober Woodrow Call, father of a boy by a prostitute.