A Lonesome Dove Road Trip through North Texas

In Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry took readers from a dusty Texas border town up the cattle trail to Montana. Here, I follow his trail through a few North Texas places that shaped him, from Fort Worth to Archer City, where he grew up and later kept his bookstore. 0:00 Tracing the Roots of a Western Legend 0:29 Exploring the Fort Worth Stockyards 3:02 Visiting the Graves of Real-Life Heroes 8:03 The Literary Landscape of Archer City 12:15 Inside the Author's Temple of Books