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OCLC. 40347807. Preceded by. Lonesome Dove. Followed by. Dead Man's Walk. Streets of Laredo is a 1993 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the second book published in the Lonesome Dove series, but the fourth and final book chronologically. It was adapted into a television miniseries in 1995.
Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo is a 1995 American Western television miniseries directed by Joseph Sargent.It is a three-part adaptation of the 1993 novel of the same name by author Larry McMurtry and is the third installment in the Lonesome Dove series serving as a direct sequel to Lonesome Dove (1989), ignoring the events of Return to Lonesome Dove (1993).
Lonesome Dove follows two retired Texas Rangers, Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae who run the Hat Creek Cattle company. Woodrow Call realizes retirement does not suit him and grows restless. Gus does not mind retirement too much, but he does miss Clara, the love of his life, who currently lives up north in Nebraska.
Box office. $2,150,000 [2] Streets of Laredo is a 1949 American Western film directed by Leslie Fenton and starring William Holden, Macdonald Carey and William Bendix [3] as three outlaws who rescue a young girl, played by Mona Freeman. When they become separated, two reluctantly become Texas Rangers, while the third continues on a life of crime.
In Larry McMurtry's novel Streets of Laredo, Call reads Siringo's first book and tells Charles Goodnight that it is mostly yarns. Mike Blakely's original composition and song titled "Charlie Siringo" was about the life of Charlie Siringo. Charles Siringo is referenced admiringly in Arthur Penn's quirky 1976 Western The Missouri Breaks.
Streets of Laredo (song) "Streets of Laredo" (Laws B01, Roud 23650), [1] also known as "The Dying Cowboy", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying ranger tells his story to another cowboy. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. [2]
Return to Lonesome Dove is a 1993 American four part television miniseries, written by John Wilder involving characters created in Larry McMurtry 's Western novel Lonesome Dove which was broadcast by CBS and first aired on November 14–17, 1993. [1] The story focuses on a retired Texas Ranger and his adventures driving mustangs from Texas to ...
Streets of Laredo may refer to: "Streets of Laredo" (song), a folk music standard. Streets of Laredo (novel), a western novel by Larry McMurtry. The Streets of Laredo, unfinished 1948 western film directed by Ed Wood (completed and released posthumously as Crossroads of Laredo in 1995) Streets of Laredo (film), a 1949 western starring William ...