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Antelope Like Phantoms in the Snow

The Crossing by Corman McCarthy

June 6, 2026 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Fair warning here – about half the dialogue is in Spanish.  But with just my many decades old Spanish classes from the dim past, it really wasn’t that hard to follow.  It’s pretty simple, and most of it you can get from context.  But.  So you know.  This is the second book from McCarthy’s Border Trilogy, after All the Pretty Horses.  There is no connection between any of the characters, but the milieu is definitely the same. Billy and Boyd Parham are two brothers, sons […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Western Tagged With: Book 2 of the Border Trilogy, Corman McCarthy, Extensive Spanish dilogue but you'll probably get most of it, Glorious descriptions of the setting and its people, late 1930s, New Mexico to Mexico and back, Saving a pregnant wolf, Teenager on a mission, Trying to take her back to Mexico

elderberrywine's CBR18 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, History, Western · Tags: Book 2 of the Border Trilogy, Corman McCarthy, Extensive Spanish dilogue but you'll probably get most of it, Glorious descriptions of the setting and its people, late 1930s, New Mexico to Mexico and back, Saving a pregnant wolf, Teenager on a mission, Trying to take her back to Mexico ·
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