Horseman, Pass By (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Larry McMurtry
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Western fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Parents and children, Tradition, Cattle, Rape, Death or dying, Grandparents or grandchildren, Ranches, ranchers, or ranching, Cowboys or cowgirls, Texas, Materialism
- Locales: Texas
Homer Bannon, the old cattleman in Horseman, Pass By, owns a ranch a few miles south of Thalia, Texas. In his eighties, he has spent his life building a cattle herd of exceptional quality. He is a prosperous rancher, whose joy comes in riding over his land among his cattle. Most of his affection goes to his land, not to his nagging second wife, Jewel, or to her son, Scott “Hud” Bannon. He loves his seventeen-year-old grandson, Lonnie, and tries to pass on to him his feeling for the land and for the traditions of the cowboy past.
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