Larry McMurtry
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 58
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
"A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event. Lonesome Dove embraces all of the American West -- adventures, legends and facts, heroes and outlaws, Indian and settlers of the late 19th century"--
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Series
Language
English
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In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the 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. Amidst all this, the Berrybender family -- English, eccentric, wealthy, and fiercely out of place...
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English
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In Zeke and Ned, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana have created an American masterpiece: funny, exuberant, compelling, violent, and tragic. Set in the Cherokee Nation not Jong after the Civil War, Zeke and Ned is the story of Ezekiel Proctor and Ned Christie, the last Cherokee warriors, living men whose story is not merely legend, but history -- their fates a consequence of the brutal policies which produced the Trail of Tears. As a child, Zeke Proctor...
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English
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In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: Martha Jane -- better known as Calamity -- is just one of the handful of aging legends who travel to London as part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show in Buffalo Girls. As he describes the insatiable curiosity of Calamity's Indian friend No Ears, Annie Oakley's shooting match with Lord Windhouveren, and other highlights of the tour, McMurtry turns the story...
6) Custer
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin Berrybender, now married to the "Sin Killer" and mother to their young son, Monty. Although Tasmin intends Monty to become an English gentleman like his grandfather, he lives the childhood of a savage. By Sorrow's River continues the Berrybender party's trail across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe, where those lucky enough to survive...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The novel follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen-year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him. Without knowing precisely where he is, they set out across the plains in search of him, encountering grizzly bears, stormy weather, and hostile...
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Language
English
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In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show; in collections of essays like In a Narrow Grave; and in the reinvention of the Western on a grand scale in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Lonesome Dove. Now, in Books: A Memoir, McMurtry writes about his endless passion for books: as a boy growing up in a largely "bookless" world; as a young...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Large print unabridged edition.
Physical Desc
235 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the rich and varied friendship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday from the town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 1
Language
English
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'mcMurtry is an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold.' ' New York Times Book ReviewThe Last Picture Show (1966) is both a rambunctious coming-of-age story and an elegy to a forlorn Texas town trying to keep its one movie house alive. Adapted into the Oscar-winning film, this masterpiece immortalizes the lives of the hardscrabble residents who are threatened by the inexorable forces of the modern world.
Author
Series
Last picture show volume 1
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
722 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels| Horseman, Pass By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)| all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains,...
13) Telegraph days
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Language
English
Description
Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.
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Series
Berrybender narratives volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
541 pages (large print) : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
15) Folly and glory
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Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
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Description
When Larry McMurtry's classic novel of the post-World War II era was originally published in 1961, it created a sensation in Texas literary circles. Never before had a writer portrayed the contemporary West in conflict with the Old West in such stark, realistic, unsentimental ways. "Horseman, Pass By," on which the film "Hud" is based, tells the story of Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency,...
17) Leaving Cheyenne
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1986, c1963
Physical Desc
253 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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A love triangle that lasts a lifetime -- Larry McMurtry's Cheyenne is not a place on the map--it's a part of life, the best peart...Leaving Cheyenne tells of a love triangle unlike any other: Gideon Fry, heir to a Texas ranch; Johnny McCloud, his cowboy friend; and Molly, whom they both love and who bears each of them a son. Gid, Molly, and Johnny take turns narrating a deeply human story that spans forty years, the story of how, finally, they all...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1972
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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Danny Deck is on the verge of success as an author, when he flees Houston and hurtles unexpectedly into the hearts of three women: a girlfriend who makes him happy but who won't stay; a neighbour as generous as she is lusty; and his pal, Emma Horton. Ranging from Texas to California on a young writer's journey in a car he calls El Chevy, Danny embarks on a wild ride towards literary fame and an unchartered border country.
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove saga volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1985.
Physical Desc
843 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
A love story and an epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last, defiant wilderness of America. Richly authentic, beautifully written, Lonesome Dove is a book to make readers laugh, weep, dream and remember. Now a blockbuster television event.
Author
Series
Lonesome Dove volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2000, 2001
Edition
First Scribner Paperback Fiction edition
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
Larry McMurtry returns to the Old West in a fast-moving, comic tale about a woman determined to conquer anything that stands in the way of an ultimate confrontation with her wayward husband. In his first historical novel in ten years, Larry McMurtry introduces Mary Margaret, a nineteenth-century version of the formidable, unforgettable Aurora Greenway of Terms of Endearment. Mary Margaret is married to Dickie, who hauls supplies to the forts along...