Beyond the easy attraction of ‘cowboying’, the quartet’s true heroes are the women of the west, with their preternatural ...

Set in the mid-to-late 1870s American West, Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove is described as “the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness.” The story brings readers to the tiny ...

The opening scenes of Lonesome Dove take place at the Hat Creek Cattle Company, a small ranch in Lonesome Dove, Texas, just north of the Rio Grande. Hat Creek is operated by two old Texas Rangers, the ...

In the '80s, most people thought Westerns were relics of the past, but the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove proved them very wrong. The four-part show, adapted from the acclaimed 1985 novel by Larry ...

SKIATOOK — A sign in the men’s bathroom has this quotation from “Lonesome Dove”: “What’s good for me ain’t necessarily good for the weak-minded.” — Gus McCrae. That and the fact the name of the ...

Ronald W. Erdrich/Reporter-News Continuity polaroids of actor Tommy Lee Jones in Lonesome Dove are lined up on a page at the Old Jail Art Center Wednesday May 11, 2016. Pictures like these were taken ...

When Andy Workman’s grandfather Lee Moore bought a few acres at the top of a hill overlooking Hollister about 40 years ago, he had a suspicion the Branson area was poised for something big. “He always ...

Keep your saddle oiled and your gun greased because the “National Day of the Cowboy” — the fourth Saturday in July —is finally here. This day celebrates the lasting legacies of the cowboys that ...

If we’re going to celebrate Lonesome Dove, we should get the story straight. I know it might not be wise to pick a fight with actor Barry Tubb. But “Jasper Fant” is not telling quite the right story ...

Sixteen of Wittliff’s photos, including stark, beautifully composed sepia-toned shots, are included in the exhibit at the Cattle Raisers Museum. Wittliff Collections/Texas State University Both ...

Keep your saddle oiled and your gun greased because the “National Day of the Cowboy” — the fourth Saturday in July — is finally here. This day celebrates the lasting legacies of the cowboys that ...