“The West,” Larry McMurtry wrote in his 1968 essay “Southwestern Literature,” “has produced many good books but perhaps, as yet, no great books.” That was 17 years before the publication of Lonesome Dove, which was to win the Pulitzer Prize and, in the minds of many, earn the unofficial title, “The Greatest Western Novel Ever Written.” If Lonesome Dove is the greatest Western ever written, then, together with its precursor, Comanche Moon (currently being made into a miniserie
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