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What Lonesome Dove Baptist Church Has To Do With Larry McMurtry

What Lonesome Dove Baptist Church Has To Do With Larry McMurtry

Larry McMurtry came up with the title to his famous novel Lonesome Dove – in a moment of total serendipity – directly from Lonesome Dove Baptist Church.

Lonesome Dove Baptist Church is located in Southlake, Texas.

The address if you get a wild hair to swing by is:

2380 Lonesome Dove Rd, Southlake, TX 76092

Of course, it is close to his frequent stop in Ponder…

Bonus: Since we are talking about ideas and church here, here is an idea on how to increase church attendance from Ben Franklin (his idea, not mine!).

A few miles south of Ponder, with the lights of Fort Worth just ahead, I happened to notice an old church bus parked beside the road, and on its side was written: Lonesome Dove Baptist Church. If ever I had an epiphany it was at that moment: I had, at last, found a title for the trail driving book. I promptly went home and—somewhat anticlimactically—finished the book.

-Larry McMurtry, Literary Life (Amazon)

What Lonesome Dove Baptist Church Has To Do With Larry McMurtry

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