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Copyright © 1961 by Larry McMurtry
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

ISBN-13: 978-0-684-85385-7
ISBN-10:       0-684-85385-X
eISBN-13: 978-1-4516-0657-7