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The Border Trilogy All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain (Everyman's Library)

Cormac McCarthy

From the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winner and one of America's greatest writers: available together in one volume, the three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling "An American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century." —

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The MeatEater Podcast

The podcast mentioned Cormac McCarthy's *Border Trilogy*, specifically *The Crossing*, which tells the story of a young man who captures a Mexican wolf but cannot bring himself to kill it, ultimately deciding to take it to a new location.

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You haven't read that? How could you-

— Episode: Ep. 074: Gray Wolves

Episode: Ep. 074: Gray Wolves

The podcast mentioned Cormac McCarthy's *Border Trilogy*, specifically *The Crossing*, which tells the story of a young man who captures a Mexican wolf but cannot bring himself to kill it, ultimately deciding to take it to a new location.

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You haven't read that? How could you-

You need to read Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy.

The Crossing, All the Pretty Horses.

The Crossing is a kid who grows up on the New Mexico, Mexico border. They're losing some cattle to a wolf. His dad says, catch the wolf and kill it. And he studies up and through trials and tribulations catches the wolf. And can't kill it. And he decides what he needs to do is bring it down to New Mexico and let it go where it won't be bothering anything anymore. Except for all the cattle in Mexico. Wolf dies. The wolf dies anyways, but it goes it, but it-

So anyhow, there you are, Mexican Grey Wolf. Billy and Boyd. You need to read The Crossing.

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