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To: LindyBill who wrote (698)	4/6/2008 6:13:43 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9626

A little too bucolic for you? :)

To: LindyBill who wrote (698)	4/7/2008 6:26:14 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 9626

Do yourself a favor. Don't. I have tried his novels several times. And never enjoyed any of them. They just move too slow. I almost agree with that. McMurtry's novels do make good movies, though. I've read a lot of early historical memoirs and I know where he got some of his ideas. For example, remember in Comanche Moon the character played by Val Kilmer, Inish Scull? He was quite comfortable with the rattlesnakes that Buffalo Hump threw in the pit with him. That is based on a real historical character named Bill Fairweather who discovered gold in what became Virginia City Montana while running from a Crow Warparty. He impressed the Indians with his snake handling. Big Medicine.