Lonesome Dove Themes

You've heard the romantic cowboy song "Home on the Range." Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, where the deer and the antelope play. Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the skies...

Love is easy for cowboys today. All they have to do is put on their best ten-gallon hat, pull on their best boot-cut jeans, and sharpen their spurs for their profile picture on farmersonly.com. But...

There's a classic saloon song from last century that perfectly illustrates the gender dynamics of the time period: "Any damsel that's in distress be out of that dress when she meets Jim West." Wome...

The phrase "tie the knot" has nothing to do with a lasso, but if you spend enough time around cowboys, you might think it did. Many men in Lonesome Dove go about finding a wife as if they were ropi...

Let's take a look at some of the leading causes of death for cowboys and their horses: Getting gored by a bullDrowning in a riverGetting shot, accidentally or otherwise, by a bulletGetting shot, pr...

Even before "Don't Mess with Texas" was an official state motto, and way before the Texas Rangers were just a baseball team, people knew not to mess with a Texas Ranger. What was a Texas Ranger, yo...

A good cowboy is like a good boot. No, we don't mean he's leathery, rough-soled, and a little pointy in places—although that may be true. We mean that he's pretty useless all by himself. Even the...

The cowboys in Lonesome Dove have a good sense of direction. They can navigate from the south of Texas all the way to Montana without needing to consult their GPS. These cowboys also seem have a go...

The Wild West of Lonesome Dove is predominantly white, and tensions between the cowboys and the Native Americans (here called "Indians") are dicey at best. This is historical fiction, so nothing wi...

In Lonesome Dove, the cowboys work hard, but they also have a lot of free time. What else are they going to do on those long lonely nights under the stars but look at the galaxy and ponder existenc...