Xianqing Zheng

Emil Frederick “Dutch” Wurzbach’s Memoir as a New Historical Source for Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

This article argues that the memoir of German immigrant Emil Frederick Wurzbach is an important but previously unrecognized historical source for Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Wurzbach’s memoir records a sequence of mid-1800s adventures that parallel several locations and epi...