Judge Holden
Possible historical figure and fictional character
Judge Holden
Judge Holden is a purported historical outlaw who partnered with John Joel Glanton (died 1850) as a professional scalp-hunter in northern Mexico and the American Southwest. To date, the only attestation of his existence is Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue (1855–61), an autobiographical account of Chamberlain's life as a soldier during the Mexican–American War. Chamberlain described Holden as the most ruthless of the roving band of mercenaries led by Glanton, with whom Chamberlain had traveled briefly after the war: "[he] had a fleshy frame, [and] a dull tallow colored face destitute of hair and all expression"; "a man of gigantic size"; "by far the best educated man in northern Mexico"; "in short another Admirable Crichton, and with all an arrant coward". Chamberlain disliked Holden intensely. He inspired a fictional character of the same name from the novel Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy who serves as the antagonist. Brent Edwin Cusher describes McCarthy...
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