Filibuster (military)
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A filibuster, also known as a freebooter, is someone who engages in an unauthorized military expedition into a foreign country or territory to foster or support a political revolution or secession. Th
Battle of San Jacinto in Nicaragua in 1856
William Walker is a famous filibuster, having failed at multiple attempts to invade Latin American countries and establish a pro-slavery, American regime.
Blood Meridian
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Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic historical novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified as an anti-Western and Gothic Western. McCarthy's fifth book, it was pu
Filibuster (military)
…Nicaragua to aid Walker's campaign. Other media portrayals of filibustering include: Richard Harding Davis novels, the 1987 film Walker by Alex Cox, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Ned Buntline's novels The B'hoys of New York and The Mysteries and Miseries of New Orleans, and Lucy Petway Holcombe's The Free…
Scalping lithograph circa 1850s
One of the epigraphs entails an ancient scalped skull.
Cormac McCarthy in 1980, by which time he had already been working on Blood Meridian for about five years
Edward S. Curtis – Canyon de Chelly (1904)