Lonesome Dove is adapted from a western novel.
Lonesome Dove is a 1985 western novel written by Larry McMurtry . Lonesome Dove (miniseries) . It is a four-part adaptation of the 1985 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry and is the first installment in the Lonesome Dove series . The Lonesome Dove series refers to a series of four western novels written by Larry McMurtry and the five television miniseries and two television series based upon them .