Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction All the Pretty Horses-the first volume of the Border Trilogy-tells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Across the border Mexico beckons-beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. With two companions, he sets off on an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.