Larry McMurtry

In the waning days of the Old West, many of the great Comanche warriors are old, and their sons would rather use guns than arrows. As Texas Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call ride out to protect the frontier, they are led by the eccentric Captain Inish Scull, who sits astride a massive stallion Indians call the Buffalo Horse. When a scheming Comanche steals this great beast, it sparks a chase that will lead the Captain into the clutches of a sadistic...

Pits legendary Texas Ranger Woodrow Call against his deadliest adversary ever.

In the Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s, at the point in time when the Mountain men and trappers like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson though still alive, are already legendary figures...

The Cecil family travels by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming.

It is 1830, and the Berrybender family -- rich, aristocratic, English, and hopelessly out of place -- is on its way up the Missouri River to see the untamed West as it begins to open up. With irascible determination -- and a great deal of outright chaos -- the party experiences both the awesome majesty and brutal savagery of the unexplored land, from buffalo stampedes and natural disasters to Indian raids and encounters with frontiersmen and trappers,...

Aurora Greenway must come to grips with old age while those around her try to cope with their own problems, including an unwanted pregnancy and time spent in prison.

Sequel to: The Last Picture Show. Thalia, once a backwater Texas town, then a boom town, collapses with the oil prices. Then a former high school beauty returns from a career as a Hollywood star, and shakes the town to its roots.

A case of adultery spirals into racial violence in 1870s Oklahoma Territory. The story begins when a white man seeks justice because a halfbreed is sleeping with his wife. There is a shootout, the races take side and blood flows.

Tells of the life and times of Calamity Jane and others whose pasts embrace the violent history of the West. Calamity Jane is about to ride again. When her old friend and rival Buffalo Bill Cody sweeps her into his rag-tag band of legends on a Wild West tour of Europe, Calamity Jane begins her last, bittersweet adventure: a journey of memories, fellowship, humor, and love.

When Duane's life seems to fall apart, he shocks his hometown by living a Thoreau-like existence in the countryside, until he meets and falls in love with a lesbian psychoanalyst who wants to help him.