Lonesome Dove

For Maureen Orth, and

In memory of

the nine McMurtry boys

(1878-1983)

"Once in the saddle they

Used to go dashing…"

All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream.

T. K. Whipple, Study Out the Land