John Joel Glanton

John Joel Glanton is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, exploration, travel and cultural encounter, and empire, conquest and resistance. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Drawing partly on accounts of the Glanton Gang, the novel dismantles heroic versions of westward expansion and the conventional Western adventure.