The Night Does Not End: Episode II
His Immense and Terrible Flesh
“That was the Judge the first ever I saw him”—The Origins of Holden1
In 1849, a twenty-year-old army deserter named Samuel E. Chamberlain joined John Joel Glanton’s gang of scalp hunters. Born in New Hampshire, raised in Boston, Chamberlain had run away from home at the age of fifteen and traveled west—much like the teenage runaway of McCarthy’s novel—eve…