Dec 21, 2009

Horseman, Pass By | Horseman, Pass By

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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.

Hud Bannon is the best and most...

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Horseman, Pass By | Horseman, Pass By

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