SOURCE: "The Ranch as Place and Symbol in the Novels of Larry McMurtry," in South Dakota Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer, 1975, pp. 27-47.
In the following essay, Phillips explores the transition in McMurtry's portrayal of the Western frontier legend, examining the symbolic treatment of the ranch in the author's first five novels.
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