The novel begins by introducing life on the Bannon ranch. Published when McMurtry was only twenty-five, Horseman, Pass By is, nonetheless, one of the most famous western novels of the mid-twentieth century. Horseman, pass by.” The novel resonates with the poem’s themes of mortality, ambivalence, and rural life. The novel’s title is a reference to a poem by William Butler Yeats, “Under Ben Bulben,” in which the poet remarks, “Cast a cold eye / On life, on death.
The ranch is owned by his grandfather, Homer Bannon, whose evil stepson, Hud, commits deplorable crimes that deeply disturb the ranch family’s chance at happiness. Set in Texas in 1954, as America was still feeling the wake of World War II, it chronicles the life of a young man, Lonnie Bannon, who lives on a cattle ranch.
Horseman, Pass By is a 1961 western novel by American author Larry McMurtry.
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