Lonesome Dove is a 1989 CBS western television miniseries based on the Larry McMurtry novel of the same name. The series stars Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, and Diane Lane. The miniseries was nominated for twelve Emmy Awards and won seven. It was directed by Simon Wincer and the TV writer was William D. Wittliff.
The book Lonesome Dove is a Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel and the first published book of the Lonesome Dove series. The story focuses on the relationship of several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana.
The best friends, who steal the herd from a gang of Mexican cattle rustlers, drive their herd from Texas to Montana, battling horse thieves, angry Indian tribes, and a renegade half-breed killer named Blue Duck (Frederic Forrest) on a mission of revenge.
The Lonesome Dove miniseries began in a chance meeting between Motown Productions president Suzanne de Passe and author Larry McMurtry in which de Passe asked McMurtry about his current project. McMurtry subsequently sent a copy of his unpublished Lonesome Dove to de Passe who quickly snatched up the film rights. The book was published in June 1985, and went on to spend 20 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. It received the 1985 Pulitzer Prize, the Spin Award for Best Western Novel of 1985 and the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Best Fictional Book.
Parts of the miniseries were filmed near my home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The complete production archives for the classic television miniseries are among the holdings at the Southwestern Writers Collection/The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University-San Marcos. You can get more information at their website by clicking HERE.
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