Spectral Line Shapes: 18th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes (AIP Conference Proceedings / Atomic, Molecular, Chemical Physics)

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Studies of spectral line shapes, on the fundamental side, reveal the underlying atomic and molecular interactions. On the practical side, they are employed as powerful diagnostic tools for the energy pursuit via controlled fusion, for technological gas discharges, for the atmosphere of the Earth, the Sun, and other stars.

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Theories of spectral line shape
Robert G Breene
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Spectral Line Shapes

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Spectral Line Shapes (Aip Conference Proceedings, No 216)

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Spectral Line Shapes (Aip Conference Proceedings, No 216)
Lothar Frommhold
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Spectral Line Shapes - Volume 10 - 14th ICSLS: Proceedings of the Conference held in State College, June 1998 (AIP Conference Proceedings)

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The ICSLS conferences are devoted to the latest developments in our understanding of the fundamental processes involved in the production, shapes and shifts of spectral lines associated with neutral and plasma systems. Applications range from the study of some of the hottest and coldest matter known to man C from stars and laboratory plasmas to atoms in liquid helium and ultimately the coldest systems known, the Bose-Einstein condensates.

Spectral Line Shapes - Volume 8 - 12th ICSLS: Proceedings of the Conference held in Toronto, June 1994 (AIP Conference Proceedings)

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Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics: VI Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics (VI SCSLSA) (AIP Conference Proceedings / Astronomy and Astrophysics)

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Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics: VI Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics (VI SCSLSA) (AIP Conference Proceedings / Astronomy and Astrophysics)

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All papers have been peer-reviewed. The VI Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics was about the investigation of spectral line shapes in extragalactic objects, such as, active galactic nuclei, stellar atmospheres, and astrophysical spectra in general. Atomic spectral line shapes in various discharges and plasma devices was also discussed. The main purpose of the Conference was to present and discuss new results found by participants working in this research field, and to review the most significant topics in the field today. Participants were known specialists and PhD students in the field from 12 countries including America, Europe, and Africa. The book is comprised of review lectures of interest for specialists and PhD students and research papers providing information about the new research in topics discussed at the Conference.

Spectral Line Shapes: Proceedings 7th International Conference, June 11-15, 1984, Aussois, France

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Spectral Line Shapes: Proceedings 7th International Conference, June 11-15, 1984, Aussois, France
Francois Rostas
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Spectral Line Shapes: Proceedings Eleventh International Conference Carry Le Rouet, France, 8-12 June 1992 (Spectral Line Shapes)

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Spectral Line Shapes: Proceedings Eleventh International Conference Carry Le Rouet, France, 8-12 June 1992 (Spectral Line Shapes)
Roland Stamm
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Spectral Line Shapes: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes (AIP Conference Proceedings)

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Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent, romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television miniseries. Now, with an introduction by the author, Lonesome Dove is reprinted in an S&S Classic Edition.

Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major novel at last of the American West as it really was.

A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West -- legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settiers -- in a novel that recreates the central American experience, the most enduring of our national myths.

Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana -- and much more. It is a drive that represents for everybody involved not only a daring, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of the American Dream -- the attempt to carve out of the last remaining wilderness a new life.

Augustus McCrae and W. F. Call are former Texas Rangers, partners and friends who have shared hardship and danger together without ever quite understanding (or wanting to understand) each other's deepest emotions. Gus is the romantic, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women and the sense to leave well enough alone. Call is a driven, demanding man, a natural authority figure with no patience for weaknesses, and not many of his own. He is obsessed with the dream of creating his own empire, and with the need to conceal a secret sorrow of his own. The two men could hardly be more different, but both are tough, redoubtable fighters who have learned to count on each other, if nothing else.

Call's dream not only drags Gus along in its wake, but draws in a vast cast of characters:

-- Lorena, the whore with the proverbial heart of gold, whom Gus (and almost everyone else) loves, and who survives one of the most terrifying experiences any woman could have...

-- Elmira, the restless, reluctant wife of a small-time Arkansas sheriff, who runs away from the security of marriage to become part of the great Western adventure...

-- Blue Duck, the sinister Indian renegade, one of the most frightening villains in American fiction, whose steely capacity for cruelty affects the lives of everyone in the book...

-- Newt, the young cowboy for whom the long and dangerous journey from Texas to Montana is in fact a search for his own identity...

-- Jake, the dashing, womanizing exRanger, a comrade-in-arms of Gus and Call, whose weakness leads him to an unexpected fate...

-- July Johnson, husband of Elmira, whose love for her draws him out of his secure life into the wilderness, and turns him into a kind of hero...

Lonesome Dove sweeps from the Rio Grande (where Gus and Call acquire the cattle for their long drive by raiding the Mexicans) to the Montana highlands (where they find themselves besieged by the last, defiant remnants of an older West).

It is an epic of love, heroism, loyalty, honor, and betrayal -- faultlessly written, unfailingly dramatic. Lonesome Dove is the novel about the West that American literature -- and the American reader -- has long been waiting for.

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Absolutely magnificent.......2007-09-10

A phenomenal achievement, Lonesome Dove could well be considered the Great American Novel. Part road trip, part character study, this amazing novel should be on everyone's reading list!

Mr. McMurtry has succeeded admirably in creating a cast of characters that any writer could be proud of, and especially of absolutely nailing a complex relationship between the two principle characters. In August McCrae and Captain Woodrow Call, McMurtry has gifted us with two of the best and most complete characters ever written, let alone loosed upon the Western landscape. Add to them a host of other rich characters, and an understanding of the trials and dangers of a complete north-to-south transverse of America, and you've got Lonesome Dove.

Desperately moving, though often humorous, this is American writing at its very best. Despite its length, it's a quick read. That's probably true because, as other reviewers here have said, once you begin this beautiful book it will accompany you everywhere you go until it's finished.

Perfect!!!.......2007-09-09

Reading this book is was one of the best experiences of my life. Truely it soaks into your soul and becomes a part of who you are. Its is something that you never forget. How it made you feel. Each of the characters and how you still pull for them despite their fictional exsistance. Physically it has its effect on you as well. Especially since you have to put it down to wipe your eyes many times through out. Read! Experience! Enjoy!

New Favorite.......2007-09-05

My husband read this some 16-17 years ago and told me I should read it one day. Well, I just read it and Lonesome Dove is now one of my top 5 favorite books ever. I absolutely loved it. It was truly sad at the end, all those characters were with me for those wonderful days of reading and now I'm done. I'll just have to read it again....

One of great masterpieces of our time.......2007-07-30

I read this book about 15 years ago, and I never read another western since. Nothing can measure up to this masterpiece. Even though it started out slowly and I almost gave it up, I stayed with it and I am so glad that I did. This is a true classic.

Stunning!.......2007-07-15

I found this book a little slow at the start but I'm glad I persevered. This is a magnificent novel. One of the best I've read in years.

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Excellent...I Hated for it to End
Good, but not as good as Lonesome Dove
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Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove)
Larry McMurtry
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In a book that serves as a both a sequel to Dead Man's Walk and a prequel to the beloved Lonesome Dove, McMurtry fills in the missing chapters in the Call and McCrae saga. It is a fantastic read, in many ways the best and gutsiest of the series. We join the Texas Rangers in their waning Indian-fighting years. The Comanches, after one last desperate raid led by the fearsome-but-aging Buffalo Hump, are almost defeated, though Buffalo Hump's son, Blue Duck, still terrorizes the relentless flow of settlers and lawmen. As Augustus and Woodrow follow one-eyed, tobacco-spitting Captain Inish Scull deep into a murderous madman's den in Mexico, their thoughts turn toward the end of their careers and the women they love in remarkably different ways back in Austin. What's amazing about McMurtry's West is that he sees beyond the romance. Neither his Indians, his cowboys, his gunslingers, nor his women act the way they did in either Zane Grey novels or John Wayne movies. Incredible beauty and lightning-quick violence are the bookends of his West, but it is the in-between moments of suffering and boredom where McMurtry shines. The suffering is poignant and heart-rending; the boredom tempered with doses of Augustus McCrae's sharp humor. Don't be surprised if you find yourself crying and laughing on the same page.

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The epic four-volume cycle that began with Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove, is completed with this brilliant and haunting novel - a capstone in a mighty tradition of storytelling.

Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, now in their middle years, are just beginning to deal with the enigmas of the adult heart - Gus with his great love, Clara Forsythe; and Call with Maggie Tilton, the young whore who loves him. Two proud but very different men, they enlist with a Ranger troop in pursuit of Buffalo Hump, the great Comanche war chief; Kicking Wolf, the celebrated Comanche horse thief; and a deadly Mexican bandit king with a penchant for torture.

Comanche Moon joins the twenty-year time line between Dead Man's Walk and Lonesome Dove, following beloved heroes Gus and Call and their comrades-in-arms - Deets, Jake Spoon, and Pea Eye Parker - in their bitter struggle to protect an advancing Western frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life.

At once vividly imagined and unflinchingly realistic, Comanche Moon is a sweeping, heroic adventure full of tragedy, cruelty, courage, honor and betrayal - and the culmination of Larry McMurty's peerless vision of the American West.

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Excellent...I Hated for it to End.......2007-09-13

It's been a long time since I've read a book that I got so wrapped up in, that I hated to finish it. "Commanche Moon" was like that for me. Following the middle years of Gus, Call, Deets, Newt and quite a few more characters first brought to life in "Lonesome Dove" was a nice refreshing change for me. I don't want to go into too much detail regarding the story, feel free to browse several other reveiws posted here that are more than happy to spell out spoilers that are better off discovered while reading, but suffice it to say, if you are a fan of the other books in this series, you won't be disappointed with "Commanche Moon". All of the things fans love about these books are once again present here; rich characters, excellent action, some romance, comedy....everything you could want. I can't wait to go back and read the series in chronological order now. Highly recommended.

Good, but not as good as Lonesome Dove.......2007-04-27

McMurtry caught lightning in a bottle with Lonesome Dove. No book in the series came as close. I almost wish he'd left Call and McCrae's past a mystery. Still, not a bad read in its own right.

4.5 stars.......2006-11-11

I love the way McMurtry writes! This was another brilliant story about the West.

Part of a huge masterpiece........2006-06-15

Not only a great western, but also a fantastic horror book.
When I considered some of the scenes involving the evil characters of the book I didn't know where to put it in my
book collection.

An excellent book.......2006-03-28

Commanche Moon was undoubtedly the best western book I have ever read, plus it was one of the best books I have ever read period. What I especially liked about the book was the way McMurtry characterized the Indians. He made them come alive as individuals within a specific culture and a certain historical time period. I also enjoyed the Texas Rangers, but not nearly as much as I did the Indians. It was obvious to me that McMurtry has done consideralbe research on Amerindians and he has used that research well in constructing the characters in his book. I was always excited when I started a chapter and saw it was going to be about one or more of the Indian characters. Many authors sterotype the Indians of the American West, making them too cruel or too noble, but McMurtry managed to portray them as total human beings and thereby created fascinating characters to read about. There were many other parts of the book that I enjoyed, but the author's characterization of the Amerindians was easily the best.

Larry McMurtry: Three Complete Novels (Lonesome Dove, Leaving Cheyenne, The Last Picture Show)

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Lonesome Dove
Outstanding, exciting & entertaining account of early Texas
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Larry McMurtry: Three Complete Novels (Lonesome Dove, Leaving Cheyenne, The Last Picture Show)
Larry Mcmurtry
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Release Date: 1994-06-21

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Lonesome Dove.......2002-12-04

Lonesome Dove is one of the best books I have ever read. It has drama, action, love and everything that makes a good book good. The story begins with the author describing the characters and the story, and you really can connect with the characters. The main character is Gus McCrae, an ex Texas Ranger who is very lazy, and loves to drink. Despite this, he is an excellent ranger and his name is known all throughout America. The other main character is Call. He is a hard working, stubborn man who doesn't like ot talk alot. The story goes on from there. I recomend this book for advanced readers, who want a spellbinding story.

Outstanding, exciting & entertaining account of early Texas.......1998-07-15

I have read "Dead Man's Walk", "Comanche Moon","Lonesome Dove" and am now starting "Streets of Larado". My only disappointment is that the books don't contain a map depicting the locations of the major events. I wish the author could post one, so I can track the events and better relate to the actual locations. I loved the books- I grew up in West Texas and can identify with much of the landscape descriptions.

Loved reading three of McMurtry's novels at one whack-.......1998-01-31

Larry McMurtry has an easy-going, though smart, style, that I identify with deeply. He doesn't try to pummel you with big words and confusing sentences. He writes like it feels.

THREE WINNERS.......1997-02-25

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW was set in a town about a hundred miles from where I live. Like all Texas towns, after the Korean War, television killed the down town area along with the picture shows. Larry was able to capture the smell of hot pop corn and hot bodies pressed against one another. Back before that war, young men had little more on their minds than how they could earn enough money after football pratice so they could take the beauty queen out - and sometimes, the football coach's wife. When the retard was killed by a fast truck, an era ended. If you are in Archer City, visit Larry's rare book store. You can pick up bargains for $5 to $1,000

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Lonesome Dove - A Novel
Larry McMurtry
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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ASIN: B000JD3KEQ

Selected from Lonesome Dove (Writers' Voices)

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Selected from Lonesome Dove (Writers' Voices)
Larry McMurtry
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Lonesome Dove
Larry MCMURTRY
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I Remember Who Denny Miller Is!
Still a Role Model
Superbly illustrated, organized, and presented autobiography

Didn't You Used to Be What's His Name?
Denny Miller
Manufacturer: To Health with You Publishers
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ASIN: 0975391704

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A large format perfect-bound paperback book, extremely well illustrated with interesting photographs. This unique book is part memoir, part anecdotal raconteurism and part philosophy gleaned from Denny Miller's fascinating life in show business and athletics. Miller starred as Tarzan the Ape-man, and has had outstanding roles in many other films. Other featured appearances were in Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeannie, MASH, Dallas, Lonesome Dove, Wagon Train and numerous other western films. All this and much, much more are superbly told in this fun-filled, informative and well-written book. A featured bonus is Coach John Wooden' "Pyramid of Success" fold-out chart within the book. Denny Miller is currently the Gorton's (Fisherman) spokesman. Truly an interesting and entertaining book! 1st edition.

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I Remember Who Denny Miller Is!.......2005-10-07

I had the good fortune of running into Denny "Scott" Miller, and his lovely, supportive wife Nancy, on Sunday, September 18th, at the Weatherford Hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was a day full of activities in Flagstaff, and Denny was doing a book signing in the lobby. What a nice, interesting guy he is, and what an interesting book he's written!

Who, you may ask, is Denny Miller? He will cheerfully acknowledge that you may not remember him. In fact, the title of his new book is, "Didn't You Used To Be What's His Name?" But I had no trouble remembering who he is. First of all, as an MGM contract player, back when MGM was hitting the skids as a movie studio, he starred in the 2nd worst Tarzan movie ever filmed, 1959's "Tarzan, the Ape Man" (it was the first worst, until Bo Derek came along with her version of the story, and nudged it out of worst place!). This epic used stock footage from 1950's "King Solomon's Mines", as well as black and white footage from the Johnny Weissmuller original, tinted, to make it fit in.
But Denny Miller himself is an appealing personality. I'm glad to have this book, both as a Tarzan fan, and as a fan of his. Miller is a great-looking guy with a winning smile, and an engaging personality. Over the years, he's redeemed himself in a series of movie and TV roles, not the least of which was as one of the leads in the series, "Wagon Train". In that series, he called himself "Scott" Miller, in case "Denny" doesn't resonate with "Wagon Train" fans.

This book is a rollicking romp through his life, his Hollywood years, and his more recent work as the grizzled Groton seafood skipper (and he's perfect as that character!). It is abundantly illustrated. He has worked with an astonishing number of the biggest names that show business has to offer, and there are revealing shots of many of them. "Wagon Train" had a policy of featuring a different guest star each week. That, and his subsequent movie and TV commercial jobs paired him with many stars, from Lucille Ball, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Katharine Hepburn, to Peter Sellers, Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Sinatra. His dish is delicious. For the most part, he's admiring and generous. But a few big names, like Bette Davis and Charles Bronson, don't come off too well.

When I think of the roles he might have played! He'd have made a great Superman, or Flash Gordon. And he'd have had the acting chops to bring them off! Miller is a loyal, sharing friend. He acknowledges and pays tribute to many who have influenced him, and helped him along the way. In spite of all the gunfights, barroom brawls, misfired special effects and dead lions and rhinos in his movie wake, he comes across as an easygoing guy with a great sense of humor, who loves having a good time with friends and family.On top of all this, Miller has packed into his pages a lot of wisdom. He has many
important things to say about life, health and physical fitness. It's the teacher in him I guess (another of his jobs). You'll find a lot of hints about the benefits of happiness:
humor, and good health - both physical and mental. I hope he writes more.

Denny Miller the man emerges from the pages of this book. A man of thought on many subjects. A likeable, generous guy who we'd like to relax with, and listen to his stories. Since that's not possible, we can hang out with his book - read his stories. So get the book. Kick back with it. Have a good time. And, as Denny Miller himself would say, Stay Healthy!

The book can be obtained from most book stores, or from Miller's own company;

To Health With You Publishers LLC
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Las Vegas, NV, 89117

Did I mention that I liked the book?

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Mystery writer,
Flagstaff, AZ

Still a Role Model.......2004-08-09

Denny Miller has had the distinction of playing both Tarzan and Superman, a feat no other actor has matched, though he treats his appearances as the legendary heroes with self-deprecating humor. Indeed, humor is the mainstay of his biography, a good-natured reflection on a long career in movies, TV and commercials with anecdotes about the performers he's worked with along the way, including Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Peter Sellers, Jack Lord and many, many others. There are also reflections on his UCLA basketball career (under legendary coach John Wooden), his time as an infantryman in Germany, and - most surprising of all - his bouts with clinical depression. And, as one might expect from a man who is still in great shape at age 70, there's some solid physical fitness advice. Miller attributes his career more to luck than talent, and seems very grateful to have the life that it's afforded him - a welcome change from the usual gossipy egocentric star bio. With his positive outlook on life and easy good humor, he remains a role model.

Superbly illustrated, organized, and presented autobiography.......2004-08-07

Didn't You Used To Be What's His Name? is the superbly illustrated, organized, and presented autobiography of Denny Miller -- a man who was a professional actor playing such roles as Tarzan and King Arthur, has portrayed cowboys, surfers, and for fourteen years was the product spokesman for Gorton's Fisherman. Black-and-white photographs, fascinating tales of showbiz, and the sometimes humorous, sometimes touching, always dedicated exploits of a true professional actor makes for an engaging and intrinsically interesting Hollywood life story.

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Lonesome Dove - A Novel
Larry McMurtry
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3 HBs: Lonesome Dove, The Evening Star & Anything for Billy

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3 HBs: Lonesome Dove, The Evening Star & Anything for Billy
Larry McMurtry
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A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove (Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography Series)

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A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove (Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography Series)
Bill Wittliff
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" Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. And now, through Bill Wittliff's photographs, we have a third generation of Lonesome Dove artistry. The same creative power and conviction that allowed Larry McMurtry to transform a workaday scenario for an unproduced screenplay into one of the greatest novels of our time, and that transformed that novel into the greatest western movie ever made, are on display in this collection. A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove is a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece begot by a masterpiece."

—Stephen Harrigan, from the introduction

Lonesome Dove—Larry McMurtry's epic tale of two aging Texas Rangers who drive a herd of stolen cattle 2,500 miles from the Rio Grande to Montana to found the first ranch there—captured the public imagination and has never let it go. The novel, published in 1985, was a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. More than two decades after publication, it still sells tens of thousands of copies every year.

The Lonesome Dove miniseries, which first aired on CBS in 1989, lassoed an even wider audience. Twenty-six million households watched the premier episode, and countless millions more have ridden with Gus and Call each time the movie has rerun on TV, video, and DVD. In addition to its popular success, the miniseries has also garnered unanimous critical acclaim. It was nominated for eighteen Emmy Awards and won seven. It also won Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Miniseries and Best Actor; a Peabody Award; the D. W. Griffith Award for Best Television Series; the National Association of Television Critics Award for Program of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Drama; and the Writers' Guild of America Award for Best Teleplay (Bill Wittliff).

Now bringing the sweeping visual imagery of the miniseries to the printed page, A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove presents more than one hundred classic images created by Bill Wittliff, the award-winning writer and executive producer (with Suzanne de Passe) of Lonesome Dove and a renowned fine art photographer. Wittliff took these photographs during the filming of the miniseries, but they are worlds apart from ordinary production stills. Reminiscent of the nineteenth-century cowboy photographs of Erwin Smith and the western paintings of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, each Lonesome Dove image stands alone as an evocative work of art, while as a whole, they provide a stunning visual summary of the entire miniseries.

Accompanying the photographs are a foreword by Lonesome Dove author Larry McMurtry and an introduction by Stephen Harrigan, who describes the epic-in-itself creative journey that led to the making of the Lonesome Dove novel, miniseries, and book of photographs. In the afterword, Bill Wittliff recalls unforgettable moments—some hilarious, others momentous—from the production of the miniseries. A roster of the cast and crew completes the text.

As its enduring popularity proves, Lonesome Dove conveys the spirit of the American West and the freedom of the open plains and sky as few other creative works ever have. For everyone who loves the novel and the movie, A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove provides yet another powerful way of experiencing this mythical, yet wholly real, world.

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Lonesome Dove A Book of Photographs.......2007-10-09

This book is a masterpiece of photos for anyone who is a Lonesome Dove fan. The beauty of the photos and my personal love of the old west brought tears to my eyes. I am buying several more for LD fans in my family as it is a treasure to own!

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