Lonesome Dove Inn
Location: USA > Texas > Archer City
Address: 225 W. Main
Category: Bed & Breakfast
Phones: +19405742700
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Archer City's Lonesome Dove Inn offers novel lodging. By Jean Simmons / The Dallas Morning News. ARCHER CITY, Texas – While Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry continues to turn his hometown into a mecca for book lovers, the Lonesome Dove Inn now provides them with a place not only to scan his many novels but also to read between the lines. The very name is a come-on, an inducement for Mr. McMurtry's fans and others to tarry awhile, perhaps between hours of browsing his four crammed antiquarian bookstores (featured in Travel July 19, 1998). Booked Up Inc. Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 – with an estimated 300,000 volumes – are scattered around the town's rather nondescript square. Like the author, the owners of the attractive new inn grew up in this western environment and had no difficulty ...