''The Border Trilogy'' is a series of novels by the American author

Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., July 20, 1933) is an American writer who has written twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays and three short stories, spanning the Western and post-apocalyptic genres. He is known for his g ...

: '' All the Pretty Horses'' (1992), '' The Crossing'' (1994), and '' Cities of the Plain'' (1998). The trilogy revolves around the

coming of age Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can ...

and adventures of two young cowboys, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, and is mainly set on the border between the

Southwestern United States The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that generally includes Arizona, New Mexico, and adjacent portions of California, Colorado, N ...

and

Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in the southern portion of North America. It is borders of Mexico, bordered to the north by the United States; to the so ...

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Literary trilogies Novel series Western (genre) novels {{1990s-western-novel-stub