Most are familiar with Buffalo Hump in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. He was a fictional character but there really was a Buffalo Hump. His name...
Buffalo Hump’s Raid
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Larry McMurtry
Best of the West 2022: Western Books
The Western Hangs On While Old West history titles wane, classic Western fiction continues to sell. The canary in the coal mine of Old West...
Shooting Back
Remembering Little Bighorn At 88 years of age my memory is not what it used to be, but let me reflect on the fine article by C. Lee Noyes on the...
Remembering Larry McMurtry
The life and times of the legendary Western writer and the legacy of Lonesome Dove. “Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in...
Horseman, Pass By, Again
The long and circuitous road from the Hayloft Bar to Larry McMurtry’ s typewriter and back again. Back in my Honkytonk Days (and Nights!), I played...
Eight-gauge Shotguns Are there any still around?
I recently reread Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry. He writes about an 8-gauge shotgun. Are there any still around? The 8-gauge dates back to the...
The Real Lonesome Dove
Thirty-five years after Larry McMurtry’s visionary novel was published, it still inspires our love of Old West History.