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"A great good, winding American" ~ Kirkus ReviewsPatrick Smithwick, Writer of Traveling Change: Annually of Racing and Household and Steeplechasing and Racing My Dad: Growing Up with a Driving Tale: "Reading The Mule Tamer advised me of exactly the same adrenalin-pumping experience I'd when viewing it mini-series Lonesome Dove. Every night after-dinner, I looked forward to another bout of Larry McMurtry’s book, and I didn't want to buy to finish every night. Certainly, I will begin To See The Mule Tamer’s Arvel Walsh being played by Robert Duvall and Dick Welles being played by Tommy Lee Jones. On another hand, lots of the dramatically, crisply written scenes – whether of take-outs, murders, medication-caused deliriums, or lust – cut back memories from Cormac McCarthy’s Edge Trilogy which started with The Very Horses.Being a meticulously researched book, a number of its most graphically imprinted scenes taken right out-of the pages of 1890’s papers, The Mule Tamer will interest visitors of famous books in addition to of National heritage.