Giddyup.
“Lonesome Dove” — the nearly 1,000-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning Western novel first published in 1985 — is experiencing a resurgence thanks to Stephen King, TikTok and cowboys being in fashion .
Larry McMurtry’s tale of retired Texas Rangers driving cattle into Montana has sold some 1.5 million copies in the 40 years since its publication. This past year alone, it’s sold more than 56,000 copies, according to BookScan, which tracks sales from major sellers and some independent ones.
At New York’s Strand bookstore, marketing director Kat Pongrace said it’s sold twice as many copies of “Lonesome Dove” this year compared to last. 7
“This is the best-selling year for the book in over 30 years,” the book’s publisher, Simon & Schuster, told The Post. “The last time ‘Lonesome D