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A Historian Learns About: The Glanton Gang
In 1850, there was a gang so vicious that Cormac McCarthy chose to use them as characters in his book Blood Meridian. But who were these men? What did they do? And finally, what happened to them?
Join Ryan as he talks about what he learned about this villainous gang. Follow along as he covers what he learned.
Sources:
All information about Samuel Chamberlain and his life is taken from his personal memoir My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue.
John H. Eicher, and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), 742.
Smith, Ralph A. "The Life and Legacy of John Joel Glanton: Soldier, Outlaw, and Bounty Hunter" (Texas State Historical Association website 1952), https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/glanton-john-joel. Revised by Sloan Rodgers on December 9, 2015.
John Sepich, Notes on Blood Meridian: Revised and Expanded Edition (Austin, Tex: University of Texas Press, 2008), 22-28.
William Carr et al., “Depredations by the Yumas,” Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and of the Pioneers of Los Angeles County 6, no. 1 (1903): 52-54, https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/41169609.
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By Here For HistoryIn 1850, there was a gang so vicious that Cormac McCarthy chose to use them as characters in his book Blood Meridian. But who were these men? What did they do? And finally, what happened to them?
Join Ryan as he talks about what he learned about this villainous gang. Follow along as he covers what he learned.
Sources:
All information about Samuel Chamberlain and his life is taken from his personal memoir My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue.
John H. Eicher, and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002), 742.
Smith, Ralph A. "The Life and Legacy of John Joel Glanton: Soldier, Outlaw, and Bounty Hunter" (Texas State Historical Association website 1952), https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/glanton-john-joel. Revised by Sloan Rodgers on December 9, 2015.
John Sepich, Notes on Blood Meridian: Revised and Expanded Edition (Austin, Tex: University of Texas Press, 2008), 22-28.
William Carr et al., “Depredations by the Yumas,” Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and of the Pioneers of Los Angeles County 6, no. 1 (1903): 52-54, https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/41169609.