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The final volume of the "Border Trilogy" finds John Grady and Billy Parham, the heroes of All the Pretty Horses (LJ 5/15/92) and The Crossing (LJ 1/94), respectively, working side by side on a New Mexico cattle ranch in the early 1950s. Grady is 19, and Billy is just a few years older, but these are two of the toughest, most self-possessed hombres in recent fiction. Their uncanny mat...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

YA The final book in a trilogy that began with All the Pretty Horses (1992) and continued with The Crossing (1994, both Knopf). John Grady Cole and Billy Parham still love the life of the cowboy, but by 1951 they recognize that this lifestyle is fast disappearing. They work on a ranch near the Mexican border that will eventually be taken over by the federal ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More