
Episode #5
Episode 5: Lonesome Dove
<p>Two aging Texas Rangers, their glory days behind them, create one last adventure: a cattle drive from the Rio Grande to Montana. This video introduces Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer-winning epic as the first book in Beyond the Western Edge.</p><p>We look at the restlessness of Call and Gus (echoes of Odysseus and Tennyson’s Ulysses), the 1876–78 moment when the open West was closing, and McMurtry’s quiet mastery—850 pages that never drag because every chapter feels like its own short story. The novel captures the cowboy at the peak of the archetype, just before it becomes myth, and the ha...






