The Crossing Summary
Cormac McCarthy

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The Crossing Summary

Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd are teenagers in Cloverdale, Arizona, in the early 1940s when a wolf, apparently having traveled up from Mexico, finds her way onto the Parham land and takes down several cows. Billy and his father, Will, begin to work a trap line, hoping to catch the wolf before losing any more cows to the wolf'shunger. The wolf finds the traps and exposes them to the...

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