
Lonesome Dove screenwriter Bill Wittliff has released a book of photos called simply enough, "A Book of Photos from Lonesome Dove." The book is about a 100 photographs from on-set and locations during the filming of the 1980s mini-series Lonesome Dove. Before it was a TV mini-series (and a hugely successful one in terms of ratings), Lonesome Dove was also a famed novel by Larry McMurtry. I liked the book, and loved the mini-series. I still remember the inscription at the beginning of the novel:
All America lies 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 within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream- T. K. Whipple, "Study Out the Land"
Wittliff will have a launch party and reception for his book on Oct. 13 at 7 p.m., at the Wittliff Gallery in the Alkek Library, Texas State University in San Marcos.




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