Like many kids who grow up in Texas, I had heard of Lonesome Dove long before I read the novel. The first time I saw my dad cry was when we watched Augustus “Gus” McCrae’s final moments on ...

‘Lonesome Dove’ would win a Pulitzer Prize for McMurtry ... The two leads are complete opposites in personalities. Augustus, or Gus, is lazy, funny, and frivolous. Woodrow is stoic, hard ...