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Judge Holden is purportedly an historically accurate person, a killer who partnered with John Joel Glanton as a professional scalphunter in the mid 1800's. [1]
To date, the only source for Holden's existence is Samuel Chamberlin's My Confession, an autobiographical account which has been criticized as unreliable. Chamberlin described Holden as well-spoken, intelligent and physically, quite large. He also described Holden as perhaps the most ruthless of the roving band of killers led by Glanton. (Finding verification of Holden's existence has been a hobby for some Cormac McCarthy scholars.)
A fictionalized Holden is a central figure in Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian. One study of the novel reports that Holden is "unscrupulous, violent, and more than a little spooky." [2] Some have argue that McCarthy's Holden is--or at least embodies the traits of--a gnostic archon. Harold Bloom declared that McCarthy's Holden is "the most frightening figure in all of American literature"[3] and compared him favorably with Shakespeare's Iago.
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