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any Lonesome Dove fans?

Donny

Donny

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I used to love lonesome dove the outlaw years but I had only seen bits and pieces of the movies untill the week long rain hit! I borrowed my dads dvd and I loved the first movie! Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Deval (please forgive my spelling) made great cowboys. That 5-6hours just flew by. Then I watched Return to Lonesome Dove. Well it was good just not great (hurt some due to replacement actors) The next movie would be Streets of Lorado correct? My dad does not have this one on dvd :( I doubt I can find it in this area without ordering it... I am prob missing a few movies from the list,if so I hope they are like the 1st movie :)
 
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I am a big fan. One of the best westerns.

Just found it on VHS (2 tapes) at the thrift store about a month ago and snapped it up. Went home and sat down right then and watched it all. As you said time flew. :thmbsp:

Terry
 
donny-- read the book. the movie is great, really, a great movie. almost as good as the movie that reels out in your head as you read this great american novel...it is about as vivid a piece of fiction as you will ever come across. and when done with that, read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, the greatest, darkest, most shiver in your boots, sublime piece of western fiction (actually, any fiction) you will ever come across
 
Great series.
Here's info from the web:

"Lonesome Dove originated as a screenplay called The Streets of Laredo, which was intended as a vehicle for John Wayne, Henry Fonda and James Stewart." That would have been something to see these sctors in it
 
Was that like the movie Streets of Loaredo or like the first movie Lonesome Dove? I'm not sure but I think streets of laredo is the 3rd one(maybe even the 4th) I'm sure it would have been great! btw how old is the book?
 
i am gonna guess that lonesome dove was published around 83-84. i heard larry mcmurtry interviewed about it while i was in the car one day, and he read the first paragraph over the air. i drove straight to a bookstore and picked it up and didn't put it down for 3 or 4 days, until i was done. it is a long book, but an incredibly vivid, gripping read.
 
shrinkboy said:
donny-- read the book. the movie is great, really, a great movie. almost as good as the movie that reels out in your head as you read this great american novel...it is about as vivid a piece of fiction as you will ever come across. and when done with that, read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, the greatest, darkest, most shiver in your boots, sublime piece of western fiction (actually, any fiction) you will ever come across
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Donny - I concur completely with shrinkboy. Read the books. I've never actually seen the movies, but the books are some of my favs. I have them if you want. I could mail them to you. Just return them when finished. I'm a big western fan - I've got over 500 western books here at the house. Especially Louis Lamour and Zane Grey.

JD
 
The Lonesome Dove novels are excellent as is the TV mini-series for the first novel. Duvall nails Gus. That being said, the novels are better.
 
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Catching up here- since the last time I typed here, 18 years ago (!), I have completed a book, entered it in the 2018 Mayborn Festival of Creative Non-Fiction, where I won 3rd place and $1000 in the book competition. Since then, I've acquired an agent and rejections from several big publishers. But we are not giving up! Here's link to the webpage for my book. https://notorioushoodlum.com/ . I'm hoping some of you guys will visit it.

But, the connection to McMurtry: The organizer of the Mayborn, George Getschow, was a personal friend of his (and mine now, too), and a number of years ago organized the annual Archer City Writer's Workshop. Devoted to non-fiction, it gathers at the Spur Hotel in tiny Archer City, Texas near Wichita Falls. The Spur is located right around the corner from the Royal Theater, AKA 'The Last Picture Show'.

As a result of my appearance at Mayborn, I have been invited to the Workshop every year since, except for '20 and '21 plague years. There is always a heavy McMurtry relative presence there. In 2019 I sat at dinner with Charlie McMurtry, Larry's brother, who is an authentic Texas cowboy, with a degree in English. Larry died in 2021. We believe that Charlie and Sue Deen, LM's sister, will attend this year's conference in September.

And, if you are really interested in going down the LM rabbit hole, Getschow has edited and published, with University of Texas Press, a collection of critical commentary by some great writers on the works of LM. Search 'Pastures of the Open Page', George Getschow, Ed.
 
I liked it. I watched it for the first time in the early 90's, I think. It gives a good idea of what cattle drive was back to those days.
 
As a Texican I feel the need to point out that cowboys work on ranches. City/suburb "cowboys" aren't. :cool:
 
Tom Brennan said:
Texan, Texican or Texian?

An excellent book on the Texas rebellion against Mexico.
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Just riffing on a "Rooster" Cogburn True Grit (1969) line. IIRC Davey used Texian in The Alamo (1960). Probably a conflation on my part. Living in Texas, which I have since 1980, doesn't necessarily make one a Texan so to speak.

Does the book make any mention of a main reason for the rebellion was to reinstitute slavery?
 
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