Helpful Score: 3
Larry McMurtry shot out a fast moving, interesting book about the Old West with his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, Lonesome Dove.
This time, he missed.
This time, he missed.
Helpful Score: 2
very good, especially if you like westerns and are into Buffalo Bill, or even the series on HBO "Deadwood". A strange old woman caked in Montana m ud pens a letter to her darling daughter back east. The writer's name is Martha Jane, but her friends call her Calamity. Buffalo Bill convinces Martha Jane and a handful of West's aging legends to travel to London with his Wild West Show.
Helpful Score: 1
This is a great account of the early years of the wild west featuring Calamity Jane and many other colorful characters. Larry McMurtry makes it all come alive.
Helpful Score: 1
Slow and meandering tale of the last days of the mythic symbols of the American West. Calamity Jane, Bill Cody, Sitting Bull, and others, fictional and real, wander through a landscape full of ghosts. Not one of McMurtry's better efforts, though he does manage to pull out a moving final chapter.
Helpful Score: 1
I loved this story. I know it's not a true story because I've read about the life of Jane Cannary (Calamity Jane), but I wouldn't be surprised if bits of the story are true. The movie was almost as good as the book. If you like stories about the tough old west, you'll like this one.
