October 26, 2009
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is based on an actual gang of scalphunters called the Ganton Gang.  One of their riders, Samuel Chamberlain, wrote a book entitled My Confession: the Recollections of a Rogue, upon which McCarthy based his own book. Story here. 

Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian is based on an actual gang of scalphunters called the Ganton Gang.  One of their riders, Samuel Chamberlain, wrote a book entitled My Confession: the Recollections of a Rogue, upon which McCarthy based his own book.

Story here.