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    A Study Guide for Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove"
    A Study Guide for Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove"
    A Study Guide for Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove"
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    A Study Guide for Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove"

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    A Study Guide for Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Themes for Students: American Dream.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Themes for Students: American Dream for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 14, 2016
    ISBN9781535827096
    A Study Guide for Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove"

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      A Study Guide for Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" - Gale

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      Lonesome Dove

      Larry McMurtry

      1985

      Introduction

      Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove (1985) is a gritty novel of the American West. However, the author does not attempt to glamorize the events and people of his novel in the way many figures of the American West have reached almost mythic proportions in the American consciousness. Instead, McMurtry offers a realistic portrait of life in the American West during the last half of the nineteenth century.

      The book centers on two old men, GusMcRae and Woodrow Call, former Texas Rangers who have settled down in the Texas border town of Lonesome Dove. They run the Hat Creek Cattle Company, and they spend much of their time reclaiming ponies stolen by Mexican thieves and selling them to cowboys or settlers passing through the area. Call, in a fit of dissatisfaction over their dull lifestyle, decides that the Hat Creek outfit is going to gather a cattle herd and drive it north to Montana. The journey turns out to be perilous and filled with diversions, but the men ultimately reach their goal. Along the way, they and the other characters they meet are forced to carefully consider what is most important in their

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