Gamblers, Gunfighters & Saloon Girls

For over half a century, author Larry McMurtry has brought the West alive to readers through his lean, lyrical prose. His personal experiences growing up in Archer City, Texas, and his passion for the land, and the stories of the men and women, who lived and loved, fought and died in the Western lands to build a life worth living is reflective in his latest novel, The Last Kind Words Saloon (Liveright Publishing, $24.95). His first Old West tale since Telegraph Days (2006), McMurtry, in an h