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Blood Meridian, o r The Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy, 1985

Blood Meridian, o r The Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy, 1985. Mid-19 th -Century Land Grabs. “Manifest Destiny” Annexation of Texas, 1836-45 Mexican-American War (1846-48) California Gold Rush Territory of Oregon (1848) Gadsden Purchase (1853). Filibusters: Glanton and Co.

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Blood Meridian, o r The Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy, 1985

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  1. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy, 1985

  2. Mid-19th-Century Land Grabs • “Manifest Destiny” • Annexation of Texas, 1836-45 • Mexican-American War (1846-48) • California Gold Rush • Territory of Oregon (1848) • Gadsden Purchase (1853)

  3. Filibusters: Glantonand Co. “The Government of Chihuahua has made a bloody contract with an individual named Chevallie, stipulating to give him a bounty of so much per head for every Indian, dead or alive, whom he may secure.” -New York Daily Tribune 1 August 1849

  4. Sam Chamberlain, My Confession Watercolors by Chamberlain

  5. Antebellum US Literature and the “American Renaissance” Civil Disobedience, Thoreau(1849) Moby Dick, Melville (1851)

  6. “A legion of horribles. . .attic or biblical”: Homeric epic The King James Bible Dante, Inferno Milton, Paradise Lost Wordsworth, “Intimations of Immortality” Melville, Moby Dick William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

  7. The Judge: Rhetoric and Forgery It is not necessary, he said, that the principals here be in possession of the facts concerning their case, for their acts will ultimately accommodate history with or without their understanding. (Blood Meridian, 85)

  8. “Who’s to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?” (Moby Dick, Ch. 32)

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