![]() ![]() McMurtry delved into such themes as initiation, loneliness, alienation, and a sense of loss among “urbanized” cowboys. Three acclaimed McMurtry novels already had taken place in modern Southwest settings: Horseman, Pass By (Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1961), Leaving Cheyenne (Harper and Row, 1963), and The Last Picture Show (The Dial Press, 1966). ![]() Lonesome Dove had carried forward McMurtry’s long-avowed goal of writing Southwest fiction that embraced realistic narrative and characters that deviated from the myth-oriented archetypes propelling the genre. Wittliff adapted the script from Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (Simon & Schuster, 1985). “Lonesome Dove” debuted on CBS over four nights in early February 1989. In the summer of 1988, director Simon Wincer was on location in Texas shooting a TV film that would breathe new life into the western and re-introduce the miniseries to the small screen. McMurtry won the Pulitzer Prize for the novel. ![]()
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