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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: In this lavishly illustrated volume, Larry McMurtry, the greatest chronicler of the American West, tackles for the first time one of the paramount figures of Western and American history--George Armstrong Custer. McMurtry also argues that Custer's last stand at the Little Bighorn should be seen as a monumental event in our nation's history. Like all great battles, its true meaning can be found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.82 CUSTER, GEORGE A MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Auroray Greenway is now dealing with the trials of her grandchildren, whom she raised after the death of her daughter. Tommy is in prison for killing a girl during a drug deal, Mealanie, a disobediant troublemaker, is pregnant with her second fatherless child, and Teddy is mentally unstable. Aurora's many suitors have helped her with her grandchildren, but she is still living with Hector, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: The Berrybenders, a family of wealthy English eccentrics, now have a growing brood of children. During the fourth year of their Western odyssey, each faces danger from Indian attacks, disease, and deprivation as they travel across the desert toward Santa Cruz.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: WESTERN McMurtryMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: The youth of a small town in mid-twentieth-century Texas search for ways to escape boredom and experience life and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1992
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Contents: The West without chili -- Inventing the West -- Chopping down the sacred tree -- A heroine of the prairies -- Zuni -- Cookie pioneers -- Powell of the Colorado -- Pulpmaster -- Janet Lewis -- The American epic -- Sacagawea's nickname -- Old misery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show. This is a Texas-sized story brimming with home truths of the heart, and men and women we recognize, believe in, and care about deeply. Set in the post-oil-boom 1980s, Texasville brings us up to date with Duane, who's got an adoring dog, a sassy wife, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1987
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Summary: With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show. This is a Texas-sized story brimming with home truths of the heart, and men and women we recognize, believe in, and care about deeply. Set in the post-oil-boom 1980s, Texasville brings us up to date with Duane, who's got an adoring dog, a sassy wife, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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Summary: The Berrybenders, a family of English sportsmen, have traveled to America to hunt buffalo and other big game. As winter strikes, they settle in a trading post near the junction of the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. The aristocratic and outspoken eldest daughter Tasmin has married taciturn trapper Jim Snow, and is pregnant with their first child. But if this union seems strange, it is rivaled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Western McMurtry 2003McMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Widower Duane Moore returns to west Texas, where he finds the family oil business significantly altered by new personnel, evolving family dynamics, and his own perspective changes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: In the Missouri town of Boone's Lick, a colorful cast of characters stands on the edge of the Western frontier ready to push west to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western McMurtry 2000McMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Living quietly in her friend Dora's Miles City whorehouse, Calamity Jane is plunged back into one final, bittersweet adventure by the arrival of her old friend and rival, Buffalo Bill Cody.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1990
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Summary: Two Texas Rangers fight Indians and bandits while trying to sort affairs with their women. One is Gus McCrae, a hard-drinking womanizer jilted by his love, the other is sober Woodrow Call, father of a boy by a prostitute. By the author of Lonesome Dove.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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Summary: A biography which looks back across more than 120 years at the life and death of the great Sioux warrior Crazy Horse, who became a reluctant leader at the battle of Little Big Horn and remains a mythic figure in American history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lipper/Viking Book 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAZY HORSE MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Traces the rich and varied friendship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday from the town of Long Grass to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Western McMurtry 2014McMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday move across the frontier from Long Grass, Texas, to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: McMurtry with his miraculously sure touch at creating recognizable women characters, and his equally miraculous sharp eye for the absurdities of everyday life in the modern West, writes about two women, old friends, who set off on an adventure-with unpredictable and sometimes hilarious results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: A history of the bloody massacres that marked--and marred--the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century, and which still provoke immense controversy today. Here are the true stories of the massacres at Sacramento River, Mountain Meadows, Sand Creek, Marias River, Camp Grant, and Wounded Knee, among others. These massacres involved Americans killing Indians, Indians killing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Fast approaching 70, Duane Moore is adjusting to the loneliness of retirement. Then things get stirred up when a billionaire heiress moves to the area and opens a rhinoceros sanctuary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCMMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Recounts myths of the closing decades of the western frontier viewed through the eyes of Nellie Courtright and her brother Jackson, orphans that make good in the town of Rita Blanca in what would become the Oklahoma Panhandle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: WESTERN McMurtryMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: With Texasville, Larry McMurtry returns to the unforgettable Texas town and characters of one of his best-loved books, The Last Picture Show. This is a Texas-sized story brimming with home truths of the heart, and men and women we recognize, believe in, and care about deeply. Set in the post-oil-boom 1980s, Texasville brings us up to date with Duane, who's got an adoring dog, a sassy wife, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999