Through the hostile landscape of the Texas-Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who after an encounter with the mysterious and terrifying Judge Holden is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood that attended America's westward expansion.
An unforgettable American classic of savagery and depravity, Blood Meridian is both a brilliant subversion of the Western and one of the definitive examples of the form.