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In The Last Kind Words Saloon, Larry McMurtry portrays the twilight of the 19th‑century West through the lives of two legendary figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Set against the backdrop of long‑gone buffalo herds and conquered plains, the novel traces their friendship from Long Grass, Texas, to the stages of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, through Mobetie, Texas, and culminating in Tombstone, Arizona. McMurtry’s prose captures the raw beauty and brutal reality of the closing frontier, offering a reflective tribute to an era that has been defined by cowboys, gunslingers, and the mythic tales of the Old Wild West.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Western Fiction/Historical Western
Authors: Larry McMurtry
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