Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West By Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians and sell those scalps.

Loosely based on fact, the novel represents a vision of the historical West.