The story begins with the wake of John Grady Cole's grandfather and takes us through the two friends' adventures, from beginning to end, when they return to the San Angelo area from Mexico. Structurally, All the Pretty Horses is quite simple. Both boys are mature for their age and successfully negotiate their adventure south. John Grady is identified by his mother as "only sixteen," and we can assume that his good friend, Rawlins, is a similar age. From there, they ride approximately 180 miles farther, to a well-situated hacienda, where they land jobs as cowboys. They start near San Angelo, Texas, and travel approximately 130 miles to near Langtry, Texas, where they cross the Rio Grande River into Mexico. The tale is about two young men, John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins, who run away from their hometown on their horses and ride across Texas and northeastern Mexico. Set in west Texas and northern central Mexico in l949, All the Pretty Horses is subtitled "Volume One, The Border Trilogy," indicating that it is the first of three books in a series.
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