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Larry McMurtry originally planned to create a western screenplay called Streets of Laredo, which would star John Wayne. This plan did not happen, and Larry McMurtry turned the screenplay into a novel. McMurtry took inspiration from Charles Goodnight's 1860 cattle drives, The Log of a Cowboy, and Nelson Story's 1866 drive from Texas to Montana. [1]
Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. [1] His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films.
The Berrybender Narratives is a series of novels written by Larry McMurtry. It tells the story of an ill-fated hunting expedition lasting several years and covering much of the early American West. As with much of McMurtry's Western fiction, it weaves a tale of bloody adventure with a sort of ghastly dark humor.
Dead Man's Walk is a 1995 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the third book published in the Lonesome Dove series but the first installment in terms of chronology. McMurtry wrote a fourth segment to the Lonesome Dove chronicle, Comanche Moon , which describes the events of the central characters' lives between Dead Man's ...
Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo is a 1995 American Western television miniseries directed by Joseph Sargent.It is a three-part adaptation of the 1993 novel of the same name by author Larry McMurtry and is the third installment in the Lonesome Dove series serving as a direct sequel to Lonesome Dove (1989), ignoring the events of Return to Lonesome Dove (1993).
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series and the third installment in the series chronologically. It was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Books by Larry McMurtry (10 P) F. Films with screenplays by Larry McMurtry (5 P) L. Lonesome Dove series (12 P) N. Novels by Larry McMurtry (1 C, 31 P)
The Wandering Hill is a novel by Larry McMurtry published in 2003. It is the second, both in chronological and publishing order, of The Berrybender Narratives.Set in the year 1833, it recounts the Berrybenders' journey up the Yellowstone River into the Rocky Mountains.