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Apr 24, 2023 · The Trailhead: Lonesome Dove Baptist Church. While the trailhead of the Hat Creek Outfit’s route begins in the fictional Lonesome Dove, a small town at the Texas-Mexico border, the real starting point for the book is in Southlake, about 25 miles from Fort Worth.
- Lonesome Dove was originally a much shorter screenplay. It was written 15 years earlier by Larry McMurtry and Peter Bogdonavich. It was called ‘Streets of Laredo’ and was supposed to star John Wayne as Call, Jimmy Stewart as Gus, and Henry Fonda as Jake Spoon.
- Streets of Laredo sat on the shelf for about 15 years until one day, McMurtry saw an old bus that had “Lonesome Dove Baptist Church” inscribed on the side.
- The movie rights to the novel were bought by Motown, which made everyone stop and say “What’s going on?” Seems an odd fit, but not so. Suzanne de Passe, of Motown, along with Bill Wittliff, produced a masterpiece.
- Robert Duvall turned down the role of Woodrow Call so he could play Gus.
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 .
- Larry McMurtry
- 1985
It's just plain tragic. The Hat Creek Cattle Company makes it to Montana more or less intact. Lorena stays with Clara in Nebraska, giving both our leading ladies a happy ending. But almost as soon as the guys are in Montana, a region supposed to be fairly isolated and safe, Gus is shot by an Indian's arrow.
Apr 22, 2020 · In 1985, when contemporary novelist Larry McMurtry’s ambitious epic Old West novel Lonesome Dove was published, the romantic, idyllic portrayal of the American cowboy, cattle drives and Texas had been replaced with the anti-Western, modern Western heroes (Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry, Larry Hagman’s J.R. of Dallas).
Jul 15, 2015 · Streets of Laredo sat on the shelf for about 15 years until one day, McMurtry saw an old bus that had “Lonesome Dove Baptist Church” inscribed on the side. He went home and finished the story as a novel, which was inspired by the lives of Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving.
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Aug 3, 2023 · The historical accuracy of ‘Lonesome Dove’. Though Capt. Woodrow F. Call and Gus McCrae share some attributes with Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving, author Larry McMurtry said the book was never meant to be a faithful depiction of the era.
