“Larry McMurtry bugs the hell out of me. He set out to ‘demystify’ the West and strip it bare—what kind of respect is that? But then he writes Lonesome Dove, one of the most fabulous books about the West. How does that happen? You’ve got to be some talent to do what he’s done for Western literature.” That’s how True West Executive Editor Bob Boze Bell reflects on our first-ever True Westerner of the Year. Or as historian Paul Andrew Hutton puts it, “Anybody who loves books
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