Masonic honors. Legacy Loving County, Texas is named in his honor, as is the town of Loving, New Mexico. Additionally, Loving Bend on the Pecos River is also named for him. He has been inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Also, his death was borrowed by novelist Larry McMurtry for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove. In the book, Augustus "Gus" McCrae is injured by Indian arrows and sends his companion Pea Eye Parker to retrieve Woodrow F. Call. McCrae makes it to Miles City, but dies of blood poisoning, despite having one of his legs amputated. Call, like Goodnight, brings him back to Texas to bury him. In 1958, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Secondary source Madeline Meyercord. Oliver Loving, Pioneer Drover of Texas''. 277 pages. References 1812 births 1867 deaths American cattlemen American pioneers Cowboys Deaths from gangrene People from Hopkins County, Kentucky People from Muhlenberg County, Kentucky People from Palo Pinto County, Texas People from Weatherford, Texas Ranchers from Texas Texas Republicans People of the American Old West