In the Lonesome Dove photo, I could pick out only Woodrow Call and Clara Allen. Did the other main cast members leave the set?
Dan Winrow
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
I thought the same thing when I saw the photo. I looked for Diane Lane, whom I must confess to having a long-time crush, and couldn’t find her.
Most of Lonesome Dove’s starring cast were not present for the last day of filming the CBS miniseries, when Bill Wi

True West May 2018
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
Departments
- What History Has Taught Me: Allen Polt
- Who was Arizona Territory’s most Notorious Outlaw?
- Steamboats on the Missouri
- Western Events for May 2018
- U.S. Cavalry’s First Bolt-Action Carbine
- Mountain Men, Mules and Miners
- How Were Stagecoach Robberies Usually Executed?
- Clash of the Mad Madams
- How Long did it take a Cattle Drive to go from Texas to the Cowtowns?
- Private Eye Cowboy?
- In the Lonesome Dove Photo, I Could Pick out only Woodrow Call and Clara Allen. Did the Other Main Cast Members Leave the Set?
- That’s My Steak, Valance
- Custer’s Conspirator
- What did Cowboys Typically Eat on a Cattle Drive?
- An Electric Dream Burns Out
- The Black Man at Little Big Horn