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Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American author of many novels, and a screenwriter. He is also a book collector and dealer known for establishing the unlikely locale of Archer City, Texas as a major American "Book City." His book emporium, Booked Up encompasses several buildings downtown. Has a son, James McMurtry, who is a singer/songwriter and guitarist.
- 1961 - Horseman, Pass By - adapted for film as Hud
- 1963 - Leaving Cheyenne - adapted for film as Lovin' Molly
- 1966 - The Last Picture Show - adapted into a film of the same name
- 1968 - In A Narrow Grave
- 1970 - Moving On
- 1972 - All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers
- 1974 - It's Always We Rambled (essay)
- 1975 - Terms Of Endearment - adapted into a film of the same name
- 1978 - Somebody's Darling
- 1982 - Cadillac Jack
- 1983 - Desert Rose
- 1985 - Lonesome Dove, 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner, and first of what became a series
- 1987 - Texasville - adapted into a film of the same name
- 1987 - Film Flam
- 1988 - Anything For Billy
- 1988 - The Murder of Mary Phagan - TV story
- 1989 - Some Can Whistle
- 1990 - Buffalo Girls - adapted into a TV movie
- 1990 - Montana - TV movie
- 1992 - The Evening Star - adapted for film as The Evening Star
- 1992 - Memphis - TV movie
- 1992 - Falling from Grace - TV movie
- 1993 - Streets of Laredo, another in the Lonesome Dove series
- 1994 - Pretty Boy Floyd (with Diana Ossana)
- 1995 - Dead Man's Walk, another in the Lonesome Dove series
- 1995 - The Late Child
- 1997 - Comanche Moon, the last as of 2004 of the Lonesome Dove series
- 1997 - Zeke and Ned
- 1999 - Crazy Horse
- 1999 - Duane's Depressed
- 1999 - Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen
- 2001 - Sacagawea's Nickname (essays on the American West)
- 2002 - Sin Killer
- 2002 - Johnson County War - TV mini-series
- 2003 - The Wandering Hill
- 2003 - By Sorrow's River
- 2004 - Folly and Glory
McMurtry was also responsible for two Canadian television series in the 1990s, and . Rumors have circulated for years that two novels by Ophelia Ray were ghost-written by McMurtry, The Daughter of Tejas in 1965 and in 1968.
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Palo Duro Canyon
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When it comes to geography, West Texas doesn't exactly have the greatest reputation.
From Mack Davis' song about how happiness is Lubbock in his rearview mirror to Larry McMurtry's haunting novel The Last Picture Show, the flat, treeless, endless landscape inspires feelings of windswept loneliness. There's just so much of it and so little of you.
And that's why, when you get to the edge of this monotony and look out over Palo Duro Canyon State Park — with its fork of the Red River meandering gently through the grass along the wide canyon floor — you almost sob with relief.
Palo Duro is 120 miles long and 8 miles wide. It lays claim as the second largest canyon in the country after the Grand Canyon. The canyon and river sustain a habitat that would have little chance on the open plains.
Big horn sheep, mule and white tail deer, coyotes, bobcats and even a mountain lion recently took up residence. But it's the big birds that put on the real show.
"The real spectacular presence is the raptors," says Randy Ferris, who is in charge of Palo Duro Canyon.
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