Exploring the Historic Border in Blood Meridian of the 1850s
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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward enlargement,
Blood Meridian
brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “wild west.”
Blood Meridian
brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “wild west.”
In the 1850s, "Blood Meridian" is primarily based on historic events along the Texas-Mexico border. The novel follows the journey of the Child, a fourteen-year-old from Tennessee, as he is thrust into a nightmarish world where Indigenous people are brutally murdered for the flourishing scalp trade.
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