Judge Holden is a purported historical person who partnered with John Joel Glanton as a professional scalp-hunter in Mexico and the American Southwest during the mid-19th century.[1] To date, the only source for Holden's existence is Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue, an autobiographical account of Chamberlain's life as a soldier during the Mexican–American War. Chamberlain described Holden as the most ruthless of the roving band of mercenaries led by Glanton, with whom Chamberlain had traveled briefly after the war: '[he] had a fleshy frame, [and] a dull tallow colored face destitute of hair and all expression;'[2] 'a man of gigantic size'; 'by far the best educated man in northern Mexico'; 'in short another Admirable Crichton, and with all an arrant coward'.
Chamberlain disliked Holden intensely: "I hated him at first sight, and he knew it," Chamberlain wrote. "Yet nothing could be more gentle and kind than his deportment towards me; he would often seek conversation with me."[3]
He was popularized as the main antagonist of Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian (1985), where he is described as "a massive, hairless, albino man who excels in shooting, languages, horsemanship, dancing, music, drawing, diplomacy, science and anything else he seems to put his mind to. Despite his almost infinite knowledge, in which he can use to achieve anything he desires, Holden favours a life of murder and hate... He is also the chief proponent and philosopher of the Glanton gang’s lawless warfare."[4]
^"John Glanton". xroads.virginia.edu. Archived from the original on 2003-04-04. Retrieved 2004-07-28.
^"John Glanton".
^Sepich, John Emil (Fall 1991). "The Dance of History in Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian'". The Southern Literary Journal. 24 (1). Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press: 16–31. JSTOR 20078027.
^"The unfilmable 'Blood Meridian'". The Conversation. March 11, 2018. Retrieved December 6, 2021.
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