The Bowie Knife & Blood Meridian

(Bonus Episode)

I. Weapons of Every Description

When the scalp hunters ride into Chihuahua City in Chapter VI, readers are granted their first look at Glanton’s Gang:

“a pack of vicious-looking humans mounted on unshod Indian ponies riding half drunk through the streets, bearded, barbarous, clad in the skins of animals stitched up with thews and armed with weapons of eve…