{"id":53,"date":"2021-03-27T22:27:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T03:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/?p=53"},"modified":"2023-05-20T09:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T14:29:58","slug":"honor-due-larry-mcmurtry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/honor-due-larry-mcmurtry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest under Texas skies, Larry McMurtry."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div id=\"jsc_c_v3\" class=\"ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a\">\n<div class=\"j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg\">\n<div class=\"qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">&#8220;It\u2019s been quite a party ain\u2019t it?\u201d \u2013 Gus McCrae. (Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove. Simon &amp; Schuster, 1985.)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d\">\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"i09qtzwb n7fi1qx3 datstx6m pmk7jnqg j9ispegn kr520xx4 k4urcfbm bixrwtb6 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-0\/p180x540\/165758770_10218587790262024_1897783361319497735_o.jpg?_nc_cat=100&amp;ccb=1-3&amp;_nc_sid=730e14&amp;_nc_ohc=tEj5AIIAo08AX82hizd&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-atl3-1.xx&amp;tp=6&amp;oh=ca83ca10972ae689fb5ef4da55d563be&amp;oe=6087255F\" alt=\"May be an image of nature\" width=\"281\" height=\"211\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">One last adventure<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">two aging Texas Rangers<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">are Montana bound<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">Cowboys*, Indians, and whores<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">An Iliad of heroes<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">*Real cowboys&#8211; not the mythologized, cleaned-up, Roy Rogers types,nor the modern &#8220;hat and boots at a bar&#8221; urban pseudo-cowboy dandies&#8211;but rather men with scars and grit (who were also men from Mexico and who were former Southern slaves) who savored freedom over comfort. Cowboys were comfortable with both ladies and whores. They were men who could shoot, ride, and rope, and they often lived lives variously on either side of the law.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"jsc_c_v4\" class=\"l9j0dhe7\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s been quite a party ain\u2019t it?\u201d \u2013 Gus McCrae. (Larry McMurtry. Lonesome Dove. 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