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February is also American Heart Month. In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared the first American Heart Month to draw awareness to heart disease in the United States. This is
True West Magazine The life and times of the legendary Western writer and the legacy of Lonesome Dove. “Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in town.” Those were the first words I ever read written by Larry McMurtry, who died March 25 at age 84. They certainly weren’t the last. Texas author Larry McMurtry had a remarkable writing career that spanned six decades. He wrote fiction, nonfiction, memoir, television and film and was the rare writer to earn both a Pulitzer (Lonesome Dove) and an Oscar (Brokeback Mountain). Photo by Diana Walker, 1978, True West Archives In...
True West Magazine Jim Hoy’s highly personal biography of the Kansas Flint Hills, two new biographies of Butch Cassidy, Bill Neal’s autobiography and Deborah Swenson’s debut Western novel. From my earliest years, I remember my parents sharing with me their love of the American West and their app-reciation and knowledge of the West’s writers, artists, educators and filmmakers. I discovered quickly that I could travel great distances from North Hollywood, California, across the West through the pages of Western writers whose personal experiences and imaginations allowed me to saddle up ...