In The Crossing, Billy and Boyd Parham, who are not professional cowboys, use horses as vehicles, and Billy's horsemanship rests upon an emotional bond to the Parham horses, a bond that is based upon his psychological and emotional ties to the horses. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole's abilities with horses strain credulity as a nearly chimerical communicative experience exists between the working cowboy and his horses. In Blood Meridian, the scalphunters use horses as tools to aid in killing. Horsemanship as Cormac McCarthy represents it in his novels of the border Southwest is a variable craft-horsemanship contingent upon the particular needs and practices of the horsemen in each work.
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