Blood Meridian is a rendering of the actual history of that period. McCarthy based the main characters on real people. The kid is Samuel Chamberlain who wrote a

Blood Meridian is a rendering of the actual history of that period. McCarthy based the main characters on real people. The kid is Samuel Chamberlain who wrote about his time with the Glanton Gang in his memoir My Confessions: Recollections of a Rogue. Here's a fascinating article that discusses Blood Meridian as an important work of American history. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/crossing-the-blood-meridian-cormac-mccarthy-and-american-history/ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/crossing-the-blood-merid...