McMurtry’s novels keep moving and developing as restlessly as Texas itself. Writing for the National Review, Kyle Smith said of McMurtry, “Taken as a whole, McMurtry’s work constitutes one of the greatest achievements of any American novelist - rich, vivid, soulful, as disarmingly beautiful as the sere landscape and always narratively potent. Lonesome Dove also won two Golden Globes, for Best Miniseries and Best Actor in a Miniseries (Robert Duvall). At the 1989 Emmy Awards, the miniseries had 18 nominations and seven wins. An estimated 26 million homes watched the miniseries at a time when the western genre was considered dead. “Lonesome Dove” was broadcast as a miniseries by CBS in 1989, with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones in starring roles. Lonesome Dove (1986) tells the story of two aging Texas Rangers who embark on an epic cattle drive north to Montana where they plan to start anew. For instance, upon Loving's death, Goodnight brought him home to be buried in Texas, just as Call does for Augustus. McMurtry said “Lonesome Dove’s” main characters, Gus and Call, were not modeled after historical characters, but there are similarities with the real-life Texas pioneers Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving, who established the Goodnight-Loving trail.
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