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Evoking the biggest people and legends of the Old Wild Western world, here McMurtry tells the story of the final of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal results: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Opening in the arrangement of Long Lawn, Texas - nearly in Kansas, and almost New Mexico - we face the taciturn Wyatt, whiling away his time in between bottles, and the dentist-turned-gunslinger Doc, more adept at poker than extracting tooth. Now hailed as heroes for his or her days and nights of subduing drunks in Abilene and Dodge - more often with a mean look when compared to a pistol - Wyatt and Doc are living out the last days of a way of life that is transferring into history, two men never more alert to the growing distance between their lives and their legends. Along with Wyatt's wife, Jessie, who operates the titular saloon, we meet Lord Ernle, an British baron; the unique courtesan San Saba, "the most amazing whore on the plains"; Charlie Goodnight, the Texas Ranger flipped cattle driver last observed in McMurtry's Comanche Moon, and Nellie Courtright, the witty and irrepressible heroine of Telegraph Days. McMurtry traces the rich and varied a friendly relationship of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday from the town of Long Lawn to Buffalo Bill's Wild Western world Show in Denver, then to Mobetie, Texas, and finally to Tombstone, Arizona, culminating with the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral, rendered here in McMurtry's stark and peerless prose. Using the buffalo herds eliminated, the Comanche defeated, and vast swaths of the fantastic Plains being enclosed by cattle ranches, Wyatt and Doc live on, even while the storied Western world that forged their myths disappears. As severe and beautiful, and since brutal and captivating as the open up range it depicts, The Last Kind Words Saloon celebrates the genius of one of your most original American authors.
