The Crossing

by Cormac McCarthy · 1994

Teenage brothers Billy and Boyd Parham cross from their New Mexico ranch into Mexico, first to return a trapped she-wolf to the mountains and later after their parents are killed, encountering a devastated hacienda, an itinerant opera troupe, and the loss of Boyd along the way before Billy makes a final solitary crossing.

Books mentioned in The Crossing (1)

• Trapping North American Furbearers by S. Stanley Hawbaker: “He took down a book called Trapping North American Furbearers by S Stanley Hawbaker and sat in the floor studying it but Hawbaker was from Pennsylvania and he didnt have all that much to say about wolves.”