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4 unusual facts about Lonesome Dove


Lonesome Dove

Four other actors (Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, James Garner, and Jon Voight) were offered the role of Woodrow Call but declined for various reasons before the role fell to Tommy Lee Jones.

Return to Lonesome Dove

It is a sequel to the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove, but was not written by McMurtry, who instead wrote and published his own sequel novel Streets of Laredo in the same time frame.

Return to Lonesome Dove (1993), written by John Wilder, is a TV miniseries involving characters created in Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning western novel Lonesome Dove.

William A. A. Wallace

Larry McMurtry included a fictionalized version of Wallace in his Lonesome Dove prequel, Dead Man's Walk.


Alkek Library

These holdings include The Witliff Collection housed on the Library's seventh floor, the King of the Hill archives, major work of significant writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Sam Shepard, and the Lonesome Dove collection.

William D. Wittliff

Wittliff wrote screenplays for the Lonesome Dove mini-series (1989) for which he won a Writers Guild of America Award in 1990 for Season 1, Episode 1: "Leaving." and a Bronze Wrangler award from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.


see also

Earl Pastko

Pastko's television appearances include Street Justice, Highlander, Street Legal, Kung Fu, Lonesome Dove, Poltergeist, Lexx, Stargate, La Femme Nikita, Once A Thief, The Eleventh Hour, This Is Wonderland, Zixx, Living in Your Car, and The Murdoch Mysteries.