Let ’er Buck
Pendleton, Oregon, got its start in 1862 when Moses Goodwin traded a span of mules for land and built a bridge over the Umatilla River. It became a crossing on the Oregon Trail, a portion of which runs along today’s Main Street. By 1900, the town was the state’s...
The Godfather of Westerns
With seven Emmys won, Lonesome Dove is unquestionably television’s most respected Western achievement. The roles were so good, the nominations of Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones as Best Actor, and Diane Lane and Anjelica Huston as Best Actress, may have split the...
The True History of Lonesome Dove
Martin Scorsese once said, “More than 90 percent of directing is the right casting.” Lonesome Dove is the greatest Western miniseries—no, to hell with the miniseries limitation: it’s one of the greatest Western movies ever made. And its greatness is because of its...
The Lonesome Dove Trail
Making the film should have been easy. Movies from Larry McMurtry’s novels—1963’s Hud and 1971’s The Last Picture Show—had already earned five Oscars when, in 1972, The Last Picture Show Director Peter Bogdanovich tried to package McMurtry’s new Western screenplay. ...
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