Lonesome Dove : a novel / by Larry McMurtry.
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TextPublisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, c1985Description: 843 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume ISBN: 0671504207 [hardbound]Subject(s): Cattle drives -- Fiction | Cowboys -- FictionGenre/Form: Western stories. | Dust jackets (Binding) -- New York (State) -- New York $y 20th century. | Dust jackets. | Fiction.Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1986Summary: "Set in the late 19th century, Lonesome Dove is an adventurous story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
The narrative centers around two friends: Augustus McCrae, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women, and W.
F. Call, whose talent for leadership conceals a secret sorrow.
For Gus, Call, and the others who join the journey, the cattle drive is not only a daring and, perhaps, foolhardy endeavor, it comes to represent American dreams of the West." --Provided by the publisher
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"Jacket illustration by Shannon Stirnweis." --
"Set in the late 19th century, Lonesome Dove is an adventurous story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
The narrative centers around two friends: Augustus McCrae, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women, and W.
F. Call, whose talent for leadership conceals a secret sorrow.
For Gus, Call, and the others who join the journey, the cattle drive is not only a daring and, perhaps, foolhardy endeavor, it comes to represent American dreams of the West." --Provided by the publisher
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1986
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