Lonesome Dove (1988)

Larry McMurtry

The cover of the book 'Lonesome Dove'

This book opens with the epigraph:

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All America liest at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but with us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamt, we live, and what they lived, we dream.

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T. K. Whipple