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The author of "Lonesome Dove" offers a brilliant and searing history of the bloody massacres that marked the settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. Photos & illustrations throughout.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author, McMurtry rediscovered the myth of the Old West and gave it new life in books such as "Lonesome Dove" and "Anything for Billy." McMurtry once again looks to the Old West and brings to life the legendary Calamity Jane in "Buffalo Girls."