Leaving Cheyenne by Larry McMurtry

Leaving Cheyenne is the second novel written by author Larry McMurtry.

It was published in 1963. The novel portrays the lives of people living in Texas from about 1920 to about 1965. The book is written in three parts.

“If 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.