A review by samanne
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

5.0

Finally read this western classic. I will read more of McMurtry. Set in Texas and Montana, points along the way. Loved the characters. McMurtry really paints a picture of a moment in time in the West, with white settlers encroaching on Indigenous peoples and lands, the slaughtering and loss of buffalo, changes in a landscape. Having read some history of the Comanche people and Texas Rangers, I appreciated the story even more. I really appreciated how McMurtry includes richly drawn women characters of the time and the challenges they faced in the 1800s on the “frontier.”