The Border Trilogy

This article is about the novel trilogy by Cormac McCarthy. For the film trilogy by Amos Gitai, see Amos Gitai.

The Border Trilogy is a series of novels by the American author Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998).

The Border Trilogy

All the Pretty Horses The Crossing Cities of the Plain
Author	Cormac McCarthy
Country	United States
Language	English Spanish
Genre	Western tragedy romance adventure bildungsroman
Publisher	Vintage Books
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Preceded by	Blood Meridian
Followed by	No Country for Old Men

The trilogy revolves around the coming of age and adventures of two young cowboys, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, and is mainly set on the border between the Southwestern United States and Mexico.^[1][2]