![]() ![]() ![]() In their travels on horseback, they encounter a young, blustering boy, Jimmy Blevins, who seems a great deal more trouble than he is worth. He persuades his best friend, Lacey Rawlins, to accompany him. It was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all. His decision is reckless and spontaneous in a way that level-headed and practical John Grady is normally not. He chooses to ride for the next wild frontier: Mexico. John Grady is too old to become anything other than a cowboy and too young to give up his dreams. After the death of John Grady’s grandfather, the family ranch is to be sold, and John Grady will be forced from the ranch. It is 1949, and the days of the ranging cowboy are drawing to a close. ![]() His connection to the land-and to its horses-runs deep in his blood his family has raised and ridden horses for decades.īut the customs of the land are changing, even as the land itself remains the same. Sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole has grown up on his grandfather’s ranch in San Angelo, West Texas. ![]()
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