The books are all character driven and the West simply becomes a place and not a stereotypical set of tropes. McMurtry gives readers an epic adventure saga while simultaneously transcending the genre by making the series about people – a thing that all great literature has in common. I am not normally a fan of the Western genre because it often swims in cardboard stereotypes and relies on action instead of rich character development. I would add the words transcendent and definitive to that description. Years later, he was near Fort Worth, Texas and saw a church bus that simply read “Lonesome Dove Baptist Church.” From that small burst of inspiration, McMurtry produced what the dust jacket for Comanche Moon (the final installment of the series) called a “peerless vision of the American West.” He set it aside and lost interest because he had no title. McMurtry began with an idea for a screenplay that went nowhere after the actors backed out. Last night, I finished Larry McMurty’s Lonesome Dove tetralogy, a series totaling over 2,500 pages.
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