Selected from Lonesome Dove Author:Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove is Larry McMurtry's sweeping story of the old American West. It tells of men and women who left the small Texas town of Lonesome Dove for the plains of Montana. — Selected from Lonesome Dove is the story of three cowboys--Jake, Gus, and Call--and their fierce code of honor. When one of them breaks the code, the others must make a te... more »rrible decision between loyalty and the law.