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March 14, 2025 92 mins

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In this episode, Marcelo leads gang to explore the exploits of Samuel E. Chamberlain’s tell all book My Confession: Chamberlain’s vivid, violent, and horrific memoir of his time as a soldier and drifter on the Texas-Mexico border provided historical details and characters—most notably the enigmatic Judge Holden. Chamberlains accounts would have an influence author Cormac McCarthy’s brutal philosophical masterpiece Blood Meridian. Tune in for a deep dive into history, myth, and the shaping of one of American literature’s greatest novels.

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My Confession: The Recollections of a Rogue By Samuel Chamberlain– This unpublished memoir, written c.1855-1861

The Storming of Monterrey” (Sept 1846) (Chamberlain, Samuel E. 

Samuel E. Chamberlain by William Goetzmann

The Scalp Hunt in Chihuahua—1849” by James Kirker

John Joel Glanton, Lord of the Scalp Range” – 1962 article by  Ralph A. Smith 

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