Readers in our new Texas Book Club —which Texas Monthly launched in partnership with the Texas Book Festival—have spent the last month discussing our first pick, Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove .

The 1985 novel, and the television miniseries adaptation that followed soon after, have been the subject of many, many Texas Monthly stories over the past decades. We’ve covered the filming , cast reunions , and anniversaries ; published tributes to McMurtry and his novel; baked Augustus McCrae’s sourdough biscuits ; and run a vivid essay by Oscar Cásares about the novel’s terrifying snakes.

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This week on TM Out Loud , host Katy Vine talks about the enduring allure of Lonesome Dove with the Texas Mont

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