Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey. It's on today's show. I'm

going to read from a book. It's titled My Confession.

Recollections of a Rogue.

And the author is Samuel Chamberlain.

And it's the book that inspired Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.

So its actual history book is written by Samuel Chamberlain, who's

involved kind of in the early era of after the Mexican-American War, in this type of borderland

that really existed. And it's hard for people to imagine, but it was really this kind of border

that existed between present-day, Mexico and the United States. That was really this kind of border that existed between present day, Mexico and the United States,

that was really unplained the land in a lot of ways.

There still wasn't the Civil War and some of these new states that had been brought up.

Louisiana existed, but there was unorganized territory no Utah so there was a Nuevo

Mexico all to California and these were all Spanish lands like from Spain up

until the Mexican American War or the Mexican Revolution that lasted a

decade from 1910 to 1920 so these take place like, like I said, in the 40s and 50s, but as Texas was coming into its own,

and there were still the Comanchees there, really, the Comanchee wars and all this was taking place.

And the Comanchees had raided into Mexico for decades, really deep into Mexico, believe it or not, Guadalajara.

Can you imagine some of these Native American tribes going that far south?

And that was probably in the 18th century.

But in the 19th century, they still had rating zones that were close to the border where this

This action took place, this action by Samuel Chamberlain and we'll go over everything, but Chamberlain was from Massachusetts

Originally and was kind of a rogue and kind of went to

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