Filled with curios of a day gone by, The Last Kind Words Saloon is a window to the legendary Wild West. It’s hard to imagine the travails of pioneer life in the United States. The rugged Wild West, ...

"The Last Kind Words" (Bantam), by Tom Piccirilli: At the start of "The Last Kind Words," Terrier Rand inventories the physical scars he sustained growing up in a family of grifters and thieves; one ...

Native Texan Larry McMurtry, author of more than 50 books, has a reputation as tall as the Wild West’s tales. His latest, The Last Kind Words Saloon, takes a different approach. It’s pared down, with ...

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