Horseman, Pass By (Thalia, Texas Book 1)
<p><strong>“Every line is poetry down and dirty in the mud, right where it belongs.” — <em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong></p><br>A stunning literary debut, <em>Horseman, Pass By</em> (1961) exhibits the “full-blooded Western genius” (<em>Publishers Weekly</em>) 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.