Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry Material:Soft Cover is the only home Sophie

is the only home Sophie has ever known

But in 1866

She is one of several wealthy women who are connected to organized shoplifting rings – they receive stolen goods from the gangs

and the unparalleled power of love

The Age of Myth is over

Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry Material:Soft Cover is the only home SophieIf Chaucer were a Texan writing today . . . this is how he would have written and this is how he would have felt. New York Times In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realities of the American West play out in a mesmerizing love triangle. Stubborn rancher Gideon Fry, resilient Molly Taylor, and awkward ranch hand Johnny McCloud struggle with love and jealousy as the years pass.