The Last Kind Words Saloon

Set in Long Grass, Texas, this novel follows the taciturn Wyatt Earp and the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc Holliday as the Old West they knew disappears. Once hailed as heroes for subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge, Wyatt now idles between bottles, while Doc is more skilled at poker than extracting teeth. With buffalo gone, the Comanche defeated and cattle ranches enclosing the plains, the two men carry their friendship from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver to Tombstone, Arizona and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The book explores a vanishing cowboy era and the myths built around it.

Why You Should Read?

• Meet Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday as their friendship moves from Denver to Tombstone and the O.K. Corral.
• Follow Wyatt Earp as he idles between bottles after earlier days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge.
• Explore a vanishing American West where buffalo herds are gone, the Comanche are defeated, and ranches enclose the plains.
• Experience the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral through Larry McMurtry's stark prose.

About the Author

Larry McMurtry was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. His work was mostly set in the Old West or in Texas of his own time. In a career of six decades, he wrote more than thirty novels, many essays and memoirs, and about fifty screenplays. His books were adapted into films and television miniseries. Lonesome Dove won the Pulitzer Prize. He also ran bookstores in Washington, D.C., and Archer City, Texas, and built a stock of nearly half a million volumes.