A Brief Summary Of The Pretty Horses

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The novel’s setting takes place in 1949, around Mexico and Texas. The story begins in San Angelo, Texas, John Grady Cole’s home before the ranch was sold. When the main character starts to travel, he heads to Mexico. John Grady and Lacey Rawlins travel through multiple small towns and stay mainly in the wilderness. They eventually stop traveling at a ranch until they are arrested and taken to a jail in Saltillo, Mexico. John Grady stops at a big city called Zacatecas to speak to Alejandra one last time before traveling back to San Angelo again. Afterwards, John Grady keeps wandering. The environment is described as being dry, rocky, and barren. Near the end of the book, the land was described as, “across the open country. The ground