ARCHER CITY, Texas — The celebrated Western writer, Larry McMurtry, aspired to turn this one-stoplight hometown into one of America's great book centers. For a time, he succeeded. You could visit one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The renowned bookstore founded in Archer City by award-winning "Lonesome Dove" author Larry McMurtry has been closed for over two ...

A literary center in Archer City, a tiny ranching town in Texas, keeps alive the legacy of famed Western author Larry McMurtry. Larry McMurtry was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove." ...

During his 84 years, Texas writer Larry McMurtry lived in many more sophisticated places than the one where he grew up. But his hometown of Archer City was the place that produced and shaped him, and ...

Larry McMurtry was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove." He won an Oscar for co-writing the screenplay for "Brokeback Mountain," and he founded a bookstore in his hometown, Archer City ...