James Bell’s thorough annotations to The Border Trilogy, comprised of All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain. This book contains a chronology, character index and index of place names for each book, plus chapters on cultural and historical allusions in the Trilogy. It’s a text that will be immensely useful to the scholar of McCarthy, and well provide McCarthy’s many fans with an illuminating guide to the backgrounds and settings of his epic series of modern westerns.