Access options available:. No, that is a charge that irritates us profoundly, one that we take particular pains to refute. By the time that John Grady and Billy befriend each other in , they have spent much of the previous decade zigzagging from the United States to Mexico and back again. Searching for a place to honor the cowboy, the two men gain knowledge and self-awareness and seek to right the wrongs of stolen horses, trapped wolves, spumed lovers, and murdered loved ones.
In Cities of the Plain, Billy and John Grady encounter new challenges as John Grady falls in love with and tries to rescue a poor Mexican girl from her de facto imprisonment in a Mexican border-town brothel. When the ongoing gyre of bloodshed destroys John Grady, Billy is left to pick up the pieces of his life against the backdrop of much death and destruction.
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