num_pages: 960
description: Although based in part on the movie, Bandalero, McMurtry gave a lot of originality to this intimate tale of the early Western Cattle-drives. First in a series of movies/novels wherein McMurtry revisited the same characters at different points in their lives.
language: English
title: Lonesome Dove
titlecomplete: Lonesome Dove
characters: Lorena Wood, Joshua Deets, Augustus "Gus" McCrae, Pea Eye Parker, Newt Dobbs, Captain Woodrow Call
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Adventure, Westerns, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 182342
places: Texas, The United States of America
series: Lonesome Dove
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Western Novel
publisher: Pocket