Taken from the The Denver Public Library’s Digital Image Collection. From the description: Bird’s eye view from center of Native American Lakota Sioux camp to the northeast, across the council circle, after the fight at Wound Knee creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, … Continue reading
Taken from the The Denver Public Library’s Digital Image Collection. From the description: Interior of Holy Cross Episcopal Church at the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, shows standing army corp men and a Native American Sioux man with wounded Sioux from … Continue reading
Speaking of obsessions, a new factotum about Custer’s death that I was unaware of. From Slate: “More than anything else, he wanted to be remembered.” That’s how Nathaniel (“Mayflower”) Philbrick sizes up George Armstrong Custer toward the end of “The Last … Continue reading
So, as you’ve probably noticed, I’m a slave to my obsessions. And now and then they combine in interesting ways. (Interesting to me, that is. I completely understand when they’re of no interest to anyone else.) So, digging deep into two … Continue reading
I’ve got a running theory about Herman Melville’s Confidence Man and American frontiersmen like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Buffalo Bill, etc., that also feeds into Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. At it’s core, it’s not very complicated. It begins with a … Continue reading
(The beginning of some notes on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian as promised here. ) This one takes a little patience, but one of the most fruitful ways to track the judge’s representation of Indians is tease out the historical representations of Indians … Continue reading
I’ve been thinking lately about Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. I criticized Harold Bloom a while back for underplaying the anticolonial bent of the book, and also commented on the misguided focus on the Bible and William Faulkner as primary influences on the novel. That’s … Continue reading
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