Not since the publication of his own beloved classic "Lonesome
Dove" has there been a novel like this one -- another big,
brilliant, unputdownable saga of the West from Larry McMurtry.
"Telegraph Days" is at once a major work of literature and a
completely absorbing read, not just great fiction, but fiction on a
great scale, encompassing many years, many characters, real and
fictional, and the whole vast landscape of place, time, life, and
heart, which has served for more than one hundred thirty years as
the background for "the Western" in fiction and on the screen.
Nobody writes, or has ever written, better about the West than
Larry McMurtry, and nobody has caught better in words its myths,
its often brutal reality, its overwhelming size, and the way it
captured both the imagination and the hopes of those who settled
there, only, as was so often the case, to dash those hopes.
Told in the voice of Nellie Courtright, a spunky, courageous,
attractive young woman whose story this is in part, "Telegraph
Days" is the big novel of the Western gunfighters that people have
been hoping for years Larry McMurtry would write.
When Nellie and her brother Jackson are unexpectedly orphaned by
their father's suicide on his new and unprosperous ranch, they make
their way to the nearby town of Rita Blanca, where Jackson manages
to secure a job as a sheriff's deputy, while Nellie, ever
resourceful, becomes the town's telegrapher.
Together, they inadvertently put Rita Blanca on the map when
young Jackson succeeds in shooting down all six of the ferocious
Yazee brothers in a gunfight that brings him lifelong fame but
which he can never repeat because his success came purely out of
luck.
Propelled by her own energy and commonsense approach to life,
Nellie meets and almost conquers the heart of Buffalo Bill, the man
she will love most in her long life, and goes on to meet, and
witness the exploits of, Billy the Kid, the Earp brothers, and Doc
Holliday. She even gets a ringside seat at the Battle at the O.K.
Corral, the most famous gunfight in Western history, and eventually
lives long enough to see the West and its gunfighters turned into
movies.
Full of life, love, shootings, real Western heroes and villains,
"Telegraph Days" is Larry McMurtry at his epic best, in his most
ambitious Western novel since "Lonesome Dove."
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