Intrigue

Texas-Mexico border in the mid-19th century: Kid, a sixteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where aboriginal Americans are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece following historical events through the characters of Judge Holden and a character known only as The Kid and their participation in the bloody escapades of the Glanton gang, a band of ruthless scalp hunters who murdered and pillaged both Aboriginal Americans and Mexicans during the mid-19th century.—deacon_blues-88632

Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man. Through the hostile landscape of the border between Mexico and Texas wanders the kid, a sixteen-year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. But the apparent chaos is not without its order. While whites hunt aborigines and Mexicans, collecting scalps as their bloody trophies, they too are stalked as prey.—alfie_elliot

Based on Cormac McCarthy's magnum opus novel, Blood Meridian is a fictionalized account of the exploits of the scalp-hunting Glanton gang who were active in north-western Mexico and the south-western United States during the mid-nineteenth century. The story is told mainly from the perspective of "the kid", a young recruit to the gang. The major figure of the story is the insidious Judge Holden, a mythic larger-than-life character who seems the very embodiment of evil. Holden is a seven-foot-tall hairless albino of brilliant intellect and a seemingly endless capacity for violence and cruelty.—deacon_blues-88632

Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the mid-19th century, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a sixteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where aboriginal Americans are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.

Blood Meridian is the story of the Kid and his escapades with the notorious Glanton gang, a rogue group of lawless men hunting for Indian scalps along the Texas/Mexico border in the late 1840s (some of its happenings are based on historical facts, but most is fiction). It also centers around a malicious erudite, known as The Judge (and occasionally Holden) and various other members of the Glanton gang. The story is riddled with copious amounts of blood and violence and thusly paints a grim, yet realistic portrait of early American expansion and depravity.