The western sections ran into the Sierra de Anteojo to elevations of nine thousand feet but south and east the ranch occupied part of the broad barrial or basin floor of the bolson and was well watered with natural springs and clear streams and dotted with marshes and shallow lakes or lagunas. The Hacienda de Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción was a ranch of fourteen thousand hectares situated along the edge of the Bolsón de Cuatro Ciénagas in the state of Coahuila. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. The shift in style paid off, netting McCarthy the National Book Award and bringing him a new level of public attention (not that the notoriously reclusive author craved the spotlight). At once a coming-of-age story and an elegy for a lost way of life, the novel's romanticism was a sharp contract to McCarthy's characteristically bleak fiction. When Grady is displaced by the sale of his ancestral home, he rides into Mexico to find work as a cowboy for hire. The first volume in McCarthy’s Border Trilogy is the story of 16-year-old John Grady Cole, the last in a long line of Texas ranchers. Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, excerpted in the March 1992 issue of Esquire, marked a new chapter in the career of a writer already recognized as one of America's finest storytellers.
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