Deep in North Texas, less than an hour from the border of Oklahoma, is a small town featured in some of cinema and literature's most classic titles. Archer City is home to just over 1,600 people, the ...

George Getschow (left,) executive director of the literary center, and Kathy Floyd, the center's manager. "I've never known anyone who loved books as much as Larry McMurtry," says Getschow. (John ...

There isn’t much on the road to Archer City. Twenty-six miles south of Wichita Falls and 140 miles northwest of Dallas, one doesn’t end up in Archer City by accident. But this spring, my uncle and I ...

A literary center in Archer City, a tiny ranching town in Texas, keeps alive the legacy of famed Western author Larry McMurtry. Larry McMurtry was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove." ...

A literary center in Archer City, a tiny ranching town in Texas, keeps alive the legacy of famed Western author Larry McMurtry. A literary center named for author Larry McMurtry breathes life into his ...

ARCHER CITY, Texas — The celebrated Western writer, Larry McMurtry, aspired to turn this one-stoplight hometown into one of America's great book centers. For a time, he succeeded. You could visit one ...