User:TravisNewell/Lonesome Dove Series/Bibliography

Bibliography

This is where you will compile the bibliography for your Wikipedia assignment. Add the name and/or notes about what each source covers, then use the "Cite" button to generate the citation for that source

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112041/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  • This can be used to mention more actors that were not mentioned within the article.
• https://www.latimes.com/la-bk-larry-mcmurtry-1993-08-08-story.html
  • Gives a summary about Streets of Laredo
• https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/983783988/remembering-larry-mcmurtry-a-writer-who-helped-define-the-american-west
  • Interview with the author.
• https://www.supersummary.com/lonesome-dove/summary/
  • Summarize Lonesome Dove
• https://truewestmagazine.com/article/the-real-lonesome-dove/
  • Goes over origin to the series.

Proposal

I would like to add brief summaries for each of the books into this article. Currently, each book has its own Wikipedia article where it goes into great detail on what happens in the book. However, I belief adding little summaries to the Lonesome Dove series article would still be beneficial. Adding these summaries could interest people into checking out these other articles, which go into greater detail on the subject. Within these summaries I could mention more of the actors that played as these characters, and I could use the summary links mentioned above as my sources. I believe adding images of where the protagonist goes to while on their journey would also make the article look better. Mentioning how this series came to be would also help improve this article. Here I could mention an interview with the author. Thus, concluding what I would like to add to the Lonesome Dove Series article.

Draft

Lonesome Dove

Lonesome follows two retired Texas Rangers, Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae (Gus) who run the Hat Creek Cattle company. Woodrow Call realizes retirement does not suite him and grows restless. Gus does not mind retirement too much, but he does miss Clara, the love of his life, who currently live up north in Nebraska. Then Jake Spoon, another former Ranger tell them about the Milk River up in Montana and how beautiful is up there. From this info, he convinces them to embark on a mission to drive cattle up to Montana. Here they would set up a ranch and live there. Jake Spoon would not go on this drive with them, but other notable people would. These people include, Pea eye, a former Ranger who worked under Call and Gus; Joshua Deets, a tracker and a former Ranger; Newt Dobbs, a boy who works Hat Creek Cattle Company; Lorena, a prostitute who resided in the town; and Bolivar a cook. Along their way they deal with crossing rivers, getting attacked by snakes, fighting off bears, and evading thunderstorms. However, an Indian know as Blue Duck causes many problems for the Hat Creek Cattle Company along the way. Eventually the group does complete their mission, but many of the men who embarked on the mission would die. In the end the cattle drive was seen as a failure.

The river the Hat Creek Cattle Company is trying to get to.

Streets of Laredo

In Streets of Laredo, Woodrow Call is hired by a railroad company, and is tasked with taking down Joey Garza. Ned Brookshire, a salaried man who works with the railroad company, accompanies Call on his mission. Call attempts to recruit Pea Eye, but he declines, as he now has a family and is married to Lorena. However, shortly after Call leaves, Pea eye guilty consicous convices him to go after Call. As they get closer to Joey Garza they encounter more foes, such as Mox Mox, a man who used to work under Blueduck. In the end Joey Garza is defeated, and thus concluding the Lonesome Dove series.