A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove (Southwestern & Mexican Photography Series, The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University)

A photo-filled behind-the-scenes account of how Lonesome Dove was created, from Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel to the Emmy-winning miniseries. John Spong interviews forty key participants, including McMurtry, actors Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Anjelica Huston, Diane Lane, Danny Glover, Ricky Schroder, D. B. Sweeney, Frederic Forrest, and Chris Cooper, as well as executive producer and screenwriter Bill Wittliff, executive producer Suzanne de Passe, and director Simon Wincer. They share stories about McMurtry's writing process and the adaptation into the miniseries. The book includes photographs of iconic props, costumes, set designs, and shooting scripts, along with continuity Polaroids from filming and on-set photographs by Bill Wittliff that document the production. Designed as a companion to Wittliff's fine art volume A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove.