Great acting and well done story

It won the highest honor a miniseries can win......the Peabody Award!
It also won seven EMMY's, 2 GOLDEN GLOBES, and various other awards.
It is also my personal favortie.

Good cast great performances if you like western you gotta like this one.

Incidentally the 2 spin off LD has produced are pretty good as well, The streets of Laredo and Comanche Moon they are fun as well.

Based on an excellent Larry McMurtry book. Great cast with Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall. It followed the book very well and overall it was a great pleasure to watch. Very high production values too. Best Western mini-series ever. Maybe one of the top five films of the genre.

Martha tried to make me watch this when it was first on the tube, but I was too stubborn and wouldn't do it. Then I finally watched it when it came out on VHS and realized what I had missed. It was a first rate Western, even if you excise the Larry McMurtry lefto horsesh*t!