McMurtry's first novel to develop? The traditional course, no doubt, might present Lonnie as a sensitive dreamer, immensely sorry for himself and whelmed, if not quite overwhelmed, by the bleak, barbaric In such a situation, how would you expect Mr. He lived on a ramshackle ranch that was owned by his patriarchal grandfather and coveted by his demonic half-brother. The story is a tough, nostalgic narrative of a young man, Lonnie Bannon, growing up in that country.
The cattlemen and the oilmen were joined by what separated them: money and changing ways to get a living from the land. McMurtry's excellent first novel is Texas-far from Yeats' Dublin or Ben Bulben or Innisfree. Something of what Yeats called "still, the indomitable Irishry." But the scene of Mr. Arry McMurtry's "Horseman, Pass By," owes its title to a line from a great poem by William Butler Yeats and its spirit, perhaps, to
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