America is in another Western ascendancy, as the sweepingly cinematic genre has been given new life on TV. With Taylor Sheridan's continued iron grip on the drama side of the genre with his shows Yellowstone and its spin-offs, as well as the latest series from writer Mark L. Smith, American Primeval on Netflix, the dirt-flecked New World creation is on the come up. And as the prevailing winds move in this creative direction, studios have been eager to gobble up the rights to the classics. An according to The Hollywood Reporter, production company Teton Ridge has just acquired the rights to Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove book series.

Lonesome Dove — which was published in 1985 — is the first in McMurtry’s series (but third chronologically), which also includes the subsequent books, Dead Man's Walk, Comanche Moon, and Streets of Laredo. The book, which was made into a popular...