Set in the anarchic world opened up by America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man. Through the hostile landscape of the border between Mexico and Texas wanders the kid, a sixteen-year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. But the apparent chaos is not without its order. While whites hunt aborigines and Mexicans, collecting scalps as their bloody trophies, they too are stalked as prey.
