John Joel Glanton
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John Joel Glanton was a member of the U.S. Army during the mid-19th century, who later led the Glanton gang of scalphunters.
Nominally a mercenary operation hired by the Mexican authorities to track down and kill dangerous bands of Apaches, the gang began murdering and scalping non-Apaches and massacring citizens before they were declared outlaws in 1851. After Glanton's men destroyed a Quechan ferry on the Colorado River, a band of Quechans led by Caballo en Pelo killed Glanton and reclaimed the ferry business. [1]
Much of Glanton's story is known through the autobiographical My Confession by Samuel Chamberlain, who claimed to have been a member of the gang. A fictionalized Glanton features prominently in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian, a large portion of which is based on Chamberlain's account. McCarthy used Glanton's second-in-command, the mysterious Judge Holden, as the primary antagonist of his book. A graphic novel concerning the Glanton gang, also based on Chamberlain's account, was published by DC's Paradox Press in 1998.
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- ^ Braatz, Timothy Surviving Conquest, 2003. p. 76
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