SOURCE: Sepich, John Emil. “The Dance of History in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.” Southern Literary Journal 24, no. 1 (fall 1991): 16-31.
In the following essay, Sepich reviews the potential causes for Judge Holden's murder of the unnamed character “the kid,” through an examination of historical sources, as well as through an exploration of the moral universe as it exists in the novel.
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