Larry+McMurtry

Larry McMurtry was born and raised on his father's ranch in Texas. He grew up working on the ranch until he graduated, and then he went to school, and later became a professor. However, because of his early experience on his father's ranch, he had a extreme passion for cattle drives and the dangers that they entailed. He wrote many different books, short stories, and anecdotes, however Lonesome Dove is the novel that made his career in writing as on of the best Southwestern writers of the nineteenth century.