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À Lonesome Dove, Texas, les héros sont fatigués. Augustus McCrae et Woodrow Call ont remisé leurs armes après de longues années passées à combattre les Comanches. En cette année 1880, pourtant, l'aventure va les rattraper lorsqu'ils décident de voler du bétail au Mexique et de le convoyer jusque dans le Montana pour y établir un ranch. Commence alors un immense périple à travers l'Ouest, au cours duquel le convoi affrontera de violentes...
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La première partie de Lonesome Dove nous a entraînés à la suite d'Augustus McCrae et Woodrox Call, illustres ex-Texas Rangers, sur la route dangereuse du Montana, là o, dit-on, les terres sont encore à qui les prend. De nombreuses épreuves attendent le convoi lors de cet extraordinaire périple à travers l'Ouest. Les hommes devront tour à tour affronter des éléments déchaînés, des pillards et leurs propres démons. Au bout de cette piste...
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Shout Studios
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1989.
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Based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Larry McMurtry and set in the late nineteenth century, this sprawling epic of the Old West is the story of the last defiant frontier, a daring cattle drive, and an undying love. LONESOME DOVE was nominated for 18 Emmy Awards, and won seven. It won two Golden Globes including Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV.
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La plupart des voleurs de trains sont pas malins, et c'est une chance pour les compagnies de chemins de fer. À eux seuls, cinq bandits pas trop idiots pourraient braquer tous les trains de ce pays. Ainsi parle Woodrow Call, ancien capitaine des Texas Rangers reconverti en chasseur de primes. Engagé pour éliminer Joey Garza, un dangereux criminel mexicain plus futé que les autres, il sillonne les étendues arides du Texas en compagnie d'une équipe...
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Aux confins d'un Texas encore sauvage, les jeunes Augustus McCrae et Woodrow Call viennent de s'engager pour faire régner un semblant d'ordre dans ce pays en devenir. Sous-équipés, piètrement entraînés et mal dirigés, ils s'apprêtent à traverser une série d'expéditions et d'aventures plus dangeureuses les unes que les autres. Tour à tour poursuivis par des Indiens, l'armée mexicaine ou des ours, ils devront se battre au milieu d'une nature...
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À la frontière du Mexique, le Texas n'est qu'un désert hostile o se risquent quelques rares colons. Pour les protéger, Gus et Call, Texas rangers mal équipés et sous-payés, officient sous les ordres du fantasque capitaine Scull. Le danger est partout : face à eux, le puissant chef comanche Buffalo Hump prouve que son peuple est loin d'être asservi, tandis que de l'autre cté de la frontière, Ahumado, mystérieux brigand expert en embuscades,...
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Shout Studios
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1991.
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Documentary tracing the development and production of the mini-series '"Lonesome Dove" (1989), from Larry McMurtry's novel of the same name. Stars Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, among others, described the circumstances of filming, and director Simon Wincer comments on the adaptation of the novel. Others from the crew, including wranglers and stuntmen, describe some of the difficulties of this massive project.
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"Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger. When the man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the vanished coach--and a mysterious fortune left aboard--Benjamin is drawn into a drama whose scope he could never have imagined, for they discover on reaching the coach that its passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman, and her...
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University of Texas Press
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2023.
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"Larry McMurtry is the author of dozens of novels (Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show), screenplays (Brokeback Mountain, Terms of Endearment), and essays ("Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen"), among other writings. He won the Pulitzer Prize, Oscars, and Emmys, among other honors. When he died in March 2021, he was possibly Texas's best-known and best-loved writer, an honor he famously dismissed with a t-shirt that read "minor regional novelist."...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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Shift your attention to two very American heroes: Natty Bumppo from James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans and Woodrow Call from Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove series. These frontier heroes bring to life the conflict between Anglo- and Native American cultures"”and capture a reality often glossed over by the romance of the Wild West.
12) Snapshot
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Umbrella Entertainment
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2023.
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Sigrid Thornton stars as Angela, a young, impressionable hairdresser who becomes a media sensation after being coaxed into posing topless for an advertising campaign. Thrust into a world of glamour and fame, Angela discovers that she is being stalked by a mysterious psychopath in a Mr. Whippy Van with a list of suspects that includes a seductive lesbian super model, a kinky photographer and her devoted, obsessive boyfriend. From the acclaimed director...
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MGM
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1990.
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Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, and Alan Rickman star in this stylish take on the venerable Western genre from the director of "Lonesome Dove." Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley (Selleck) thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes that his mission is to eradicate the Aborigines from the property of a wealthy cattle baron (Rickman) — Quigley refuses...and...
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What makes Dave Barry funny? Stephen King scary? Tami Hoag heartbreaking?
All readily admit that where they live greatly influences what they write.
Indeed, for both writers and readers, geography may well be destiny when it comes to fiction. Novelists often borrow from their surroundings, consciously or subconsciously, to create their imaginative worlds, just as we readers are drawn to those works that transport us to more exciting and inspiring...
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Set in the 1880's A story of a United States Marshall's struggle between justice and vengeance...
You will enjoy plenty of Wild West action and heartwarming stories of friendship and love. You will get to know all the colorful characters, young and old. This western-themed book is composed in the spirit of other classic westerns like Shane, Lonesome Dove, and The Lawman. My book will make you feel almost like you were there. I am sure that you will...
16) Inspiring A More Equitable Society And Improving Family Life: United We Succeed, Divided We Fail
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"Everything has changed but the way We think." Attributed to both Leslie Groves and Albert Einstein right after the Hiroshima explosion, We humans still think as We always have about pretty much everything. It may be the source of Our present anxieties. Respect and Responsibility, with their sibling Justice, have seemingly become lonesome doves, as near to extinction in some manner as so much wildlife and Our stable atmosphere. Government policy and...
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With this compilation of Texas-and Texanized-favorite myths and legends, award-winning tale teller Donna Ingham applies her own unmistakable voice to traverse her home state through such stories as:
"The Coming of the Bluebonnet"-an oft-collected Commanche myth about love and sacrifice and the origin of the Texas state flower
"The Story Behind the Story"-about two early cattlemen and the basis for an episode in Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove"
"The...
18) Warhorse Trail
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In the wild and rugged Cherokee Nation, a young bounty hunter named Jacob Wolf embarks on a dangerous journey to retrieve stolen horses and seek justice for his retired partner, Jerome Freeman. But it won't be an easy task, as Levi White Horn and his gang will stop at nothing to rid the nation of the rival for beautiful Sarah Longfeather. Filled with heart-pounding action and vivid descriptions of the untamed West, "The Travels of Jacob Wolf: Warhorse...
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St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
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2023.
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"A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American West, and as the Great Plains' keenest witness since Willa Cather and Wallace Stegner. Larry McMurtry: A Life traces his origins as one of the last American writers...
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A woman fights for her life as a refugee, slave, mother, and farmer, in this "saga with many layers . . . [A] riveting, addictive journey" (Joanne Hardy, author of The Girl in the Butternut Dress).
After the deaths of her white father and mixed-race mother, young Eliza is left with neither home nor family in the newly forming frontier of Texas.
Enslaved by men who treat her body as their property, she eventually escapes, marries, becomes a...
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