Horseman, Pass By

“Every line is poetry down and dirty in the mud, right where it belongs.” ― Publishers Weekly

A stunning literary debut, Horseman, Pass By (1961) exhibits the “full-blooded Western genius” (Publishers Weekly) that would come to define McMurtry’s incomparable sensibility. In the dusty north Texas town of Thalia, young Lonnie Bannon quietly endures the pangs of maturity as a persistent rivalry between his grandfather and step-uncle, Hud, festers, and a deadly disease spreads among their cattle like wildfire.

• Leaving Cheyenne
• The Last Picture Show
• The Big Sky
• The Last Kind Words Saloon: A Novel
• Dead Man's Walk
• Remember Ben Clayton
• Thalia: A Texas Trilogy
• Desperadoes
• The Virginian (with an Introduction by Struthers Burt)
• The Sisters Brothers