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Comanche Moon is a 1997 Western novel by American author Larry McMurtry and part of the Lonesome Dove series. Set before Lonesome Dove, it follows Texas Rangers Woodrow F. Call and Augustus McCrae during their earlier years along the Texas frontier, amid conflicts involving Comanche groups, settlers...

Leaving Cheyenne is Larry McMurtry's second novel, published in 1963 by Harper & Row. Set in Texas across several decades, it presents the long relationship between Gideon Frye, Johnny McCloud, and Molly Taylor as a love triangle narrated through three first-person accounts. The novel is notable for...

Buffalo Girls is a 1990 historical novel by Larry McMurtry centered on Martha Jane Canary, known as Calamity Jane. The narrative combines conventional prose with letters from Calamity Jane to her daughter and depicts the later period of the American frontier through encounters with figures including...

By Sorrow's River is a 2003 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the third volume in the Berrybender Narratives, a series about a wealthy, unruly family traveling through the American West during the nineteenth century. The book continues the family's encounters with frontier lands...

The Wandering Hill is a 2003 novel by Larry McMurtry and the second book in his Berrybender Narratives. Set in 1833, it follows the Berrybender family as its journey moves up the Yellowstone River into the Rocky Mountains, where the family encounters mountain men, Native nations, and the hardships o...

Sin Killer is a historical Western novel by Larry McMurtry, published in 2002. It opens The Berrybender Narratives, a four-book series about the Berrybender family as they travel through the American West during the nineteenth century. The novel combines a family journey with encounters among settle...

Anything for Billy is a 1988 historical Western novel by Larry McMurtry about Billy the Kid and the people who follow, describe, and exploit his reputation. The story is narrated through the perspective of a dime novelist, allowing McMurtry to examine how frontier events become legend. The book comb...