The other two books in the trilogy, “Leaving Cheyenne” in 1963 and “The Last Picture Show” in 1966, would also both be adapted into feature films: Sidney Lumet’s “Loving Molly” in 1974 and Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show” from 1971. It was adapted into a feature film, “Hud,” starring Paul Newman. Streets of Laredo set in the early 1890s.

Lonesome Dove set in the mid-to-late 1870s.

This epic story will make the reader laugh out loud and cry unabashed as it journeys from Lonesome Dove, Texas to Montana on a cattle drive. Lonesome Dove Books in chronological order Dead Man’s Walk set in the early 1840s. His first book, “Horseman, Pass By,” follows life on a cattle ranch in post-WWII Texas. Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, is an adventure from beginning to end. On the whole, adaptations of his books have been nominated for 34 Oscars and have won 13.īorn in Texas as the son of a rancher, McMurtry’s first three novels drew from his upbringing and were a trilogy of stories set in the small town of Thalia. The sweeping, 843-page novel became one of McMurtry’s most acclaimed and commercially successful works, and the subsequent TV miniseries starring Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones was nominated for 18 Emmys. McMurtry won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1985 novel “Lonesome Dove,” which told the story of two retired Texas Rangers in the waning period of the Old West who drive a cattle herd to Montana as they grapple with age, death and faded glory. He most recently collaborated with Ossana on “Joe Bell” starring Mark Wahlberg, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. Geoff Dyer: ‘Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is like the gift of reading itself’ The author and critic on ‘total bore’ Saul Bellow, how Nietzsche changed his mind, and laughing and crying over.

Lonesome dove books in order