Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attendedAmerica's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of theWestern novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historicalevents that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it tracesthe fortunes of the Kid, a 14-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into
anightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for theirscalps is thriving.