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American Arthuriana

Sources of information


Print sources

Baines, Keith. Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur: King Arthur and the legends of the round table; a new rendition. New York: Mentor, 1962.

Campbell, Joseph. The Masks of God: Creative Mythology. New York: Penguin Arkana, 1968.

Coghlan, Ronan. Illustrated encyclopedia of Arthurian legends. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1995.

Harrigan, Stephen. “Introduction.” A book of photographs from Lonesome Dove. 2007. By Bill Whittliff. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.

Hoffman, Mary, with illustrations by Christina Balit. Women of Camelot: Queens and enchantresses at the court of King Arthur. New York: Abbeville Press, 2000.

Malory, Sir Thomas, edited by Janet Cowen. Le Morte d’Arthur, 2 vols. London: Penguin Books, 1969.

Matthews, John. The Arthurian Tradition. Rockport Massachusetts: Element, 1994.

McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.

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About the author of this website

Daniel McDonald Johnson is a writer and photographer. Contact him at his e-mail address. Visit his website at danielmcdonaldjohnson.com and his author page at amazon.com.

Johnson's major work, Blood on the Marsh, chronicles the epic adventures of Brigadier William Mackintosh, John Mackintosh Mor, Aeneas the 22nd Chief of Clan Mackintosh, “Colonel Anne” Mackintosh, Flora Macdonald, Aeneas the 23rd Chief of Clan Mackintosh, Continental General Lachlan McIntosh, Roderick “Rory” Mackintosh, Continental Colonel John Mcintosh, Sergeant Alexander McDonald and Sergeant Allen McDonald. In the introduction, Johnson writes:

I have tried to combine the various legends into a single narrative that is told in chronological order. In collecting the previously published legends, I followed the trail blazed by Sir Thomas Malory when he collected the various versions of Arthurian myth, legend and romance into a single narrative in Le morte d’Arthur. As in Malory’s book, most of the legends in my book are combat tales, and most of the characters are men.

Lonesome Dove is a great book that had the rare fortune of being made into a great movie. More remarkable still is the fact that the movie took none of the magic away from the novel. You can watch one and read the other, and still respond to the integrity of both. The two manifestations of the story are mutually reinforcing.

(Harrigan, page xxii)

Movie on DVD

Wincer, Simon, director, with screenplay by Bill Wittliff. Lonesome Dove (two DVD set). Santa Monica, California: Hallmark Home Entertainment, distributed by Artisan Entertainment, 1988.

Videos on the Internet

Watch the Lonesome Dove television miniseries for free on Internet Movie Database

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