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Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove (1985)
This Pulitzer Prize-winning Western started out as a screenplay by Larry McMurtry. The film, which was to star John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda, was never made, and the author decided to turn the screenplay into a novel, which became part of a trilogy. Lonesome Dove, then became a much-loved, critically acclaimed television miniseries that won seven Emmys. Four more miniseries followed, as well as two additional television series. The story is a fictionalized account of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana led by Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving in the 1870s and the travails of Goodnight while returning Loving's body to Texas for burial after his death. |