<p><b>This is Larry McMurtry's ballad in prose: his heartfelt tribute to a bygone era of the American West.</b><br><br>Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With <i>The Last Kind Words Saloon</i>, he returns to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic <i>Lonesome Dove</i>. Evoking the greatest characters and legends of the Old Wild West, McMurtry tells the story of the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. <br><br>Long Grass, Texas. Once hailed as heroes for their days of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge – more often with a mean look than a pistol – the taciturn Wyatt now idles away his time between bottles, while the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc is more adept at poker than
