Lonesome Dove began as Larry McMurtry's sprawling 1985 novel, a Western epic about two aging former Texas Rangers, Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae, who drive a cattle herd from the Rio Grande to Montana. The book is celebrated for treating the frontier not as myth but as something harder and sadder, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
The series spans page and screen. This grouping pairs the novel with Comanche Moon, a later television entry that reaches back to Call and McCrae as younger men facing Comanche warriors and outlaws on a still-lawless frontier. The throughline across both forms is the friendship at the center: two very different men, one taciturn and one talkative, and the long, often tragic arc of their lives in a vanishing West.
The Lonesome Dove series franchise spans 1 series, 1 books in the CrossBinge catalog.