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I haven't read that one, but I loved Sam Gwynne's book "Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History." https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful/dp/1416591060/ref=pd_lpo_card_2?pd_rd_i=1416591060&psc=1

I'm also told that "War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War" by Brian DeLay is a good one. It is part of the Lamar Series and looks not only at the Comanche, but also the Apache, Kiowa, and Navajo peoples.

Yeah, this is definitely the trickiest search I've had in a while. I ended up contacting PBS and, as they no longer carry the rights to the program it initially aired on, they do not distribute it anymore. The representative provided me with a resource that shows the libraries still carrying the DVD, so I'm going to see if I can get a copy through some library loan program.

This is the list, for anyone curious. If I end up getting anywhere with this, I'll let you all know.

The Kindle version on Amazon has a preview you can check out. https://www.amazon.com/Gospel-According-Billy-Kid-Novel-ebook/dp/B08WRWQ7RQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=dennis+mccarthy&qid=1617750255&sr=8-1

When I pop that ISBN into the Amazon search, it comes up with the same result but with an 1 September 2016 release date.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/033045742X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_4WW5GERBVQB6V01KAGAV

https://www.amazon.com/Books-Are-Made-Out-Influences/dp/1477313486/ref=asc_df_1477313486_nodl?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312009759033&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14224598532852581918&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9022860&hvtargid=pla-568228745702&psc=1&dplnkId=0b0b475e-dd12-40b6-abcb-543377006093

Books are Made Out of Books!

I just discovered a recent awesome explanatory history of the development of Quantum Mechanics that is beautifully written and very entertaining. If you are interested: What is Real? Adam Becker. Splendid book. https://www.amazon.com/What-Real-Unfinished-Meaning-Quantum/dp/1541698975/ref=asc_df_1541698975/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=366299527326&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12423241491985480485&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9022879&hvtargid=pla-814387251306&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=79033899271&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=366299527326&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12423241491985480485&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9022879&hvtargid=pla-814387251306

I purchased Philosophy of mathematics (edited by Benacerraf and Putnam) based off this interview (McCarthy mentions it's an excellent collection at some point).

I read and enjoyed The God Particle years ago ((2006) and there is a follow on to it by the same Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman called Beyond the God Particle if you enjoy it. Accessible to the non physicist. Controversy around calling the Higgs Boson the God particle notwithstanding. https://www.amazon.com/God-Particle-Universe-Answer-Question-ebook/dp/B008J53TH4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3UR79R7US5N4Y&keywords=the+god+particle&qid=1668267606&sprefix=the+god+particle%2Caps%2C112&sr=8-1

https://www.amazon.ca/Passenger-Copy-Box-Set-SIGNED/dp/0593537564/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=72XEL4JYV14Y&keywords=Passenger+2+Copy+Box+Set+SIGNED&qid=1666291791&s=books&sprefix=passenger+2+copy+box+set+signed%2Cstripbooks%2C139&sr=1-1

I'm old and I don't know how to make links look pretty, but here it is.

https://www.amazon.ca/Passenger-Copy-Box-Set-SIGNED/dp/0593537564/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=72XEL4JYV14Y&keywords=Passenger+2+Copy+Box+Set+SIGNED&qid=1666291791&s=books&sprefix=passenger+2+copy+box+set+signed%2Cstripbooks%2C139&sr=1-1

going straight to the source is always a good idea: https://www.amazon.com/Nag-Hammadi-Library-James-Robinson/dp/0060669357

For a looser, more interpretive and weird version there is Phillip K. Dicks swan-song, the Valis trilogy, which are all excellent.

They've done an interview together,

http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/werner_herzog_and_cormac_mccarthy.html

To kick off this wonderful episode of Science Friday (listen here or below), physicist Lawrence M. Krauss suggests that science and art ask the same fundamental question: Who are we, and what is our place in the universe?

Over the next hour, Krauss is joined in his exploration of this question by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World) and 2000 Pulitzer Prize winner Cormack McCarthy (The Crossing, The Road, No Country For Old Men). Much of their discussion revolves around Herzog's latest film, the 3-D documentary The Cave of Forgotten Dreams, but they also address bottleneck theory, complexity science, the history of painting, and the upcoming rise of the machines.

This is also a fantastic resource: https://www.amazon.com/Home-Ground-Language-American-Landscape/dp/1595340246/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1664401796&sr=1-1

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Thanks for the share!

Super late on this, but… it’s a novel, but there are lots of sources McCarthy drew on including and beyond Chamberlain. This book is fairly exhaustive if you want to know more. Fair warning: it’s an academic analysis and far drier than the novel.

https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Blood-Meridian-Southwestern-Collection/dp/0292718217

https://www.amazon.com/Cormac-McCarthy-Blooms-Critical-Hardcover/dp/1604133953/ref=sr\_1\_4?crid=2E5CBZ8Z10JMM&keywords=critical+cormac+mccarthy+books&qid=1648146508&sprefix=critical+cormac+mccarthy+books%2Caps%2C231&sr=8-4

It seems like they will look completely different.

UK edition

US edition

I'm not sure which one I like better...

I'm constantly amazed at how many books are on the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg, especially when searches for the physical version of a book turn up ridiculous prices. (You can get a copy of My Confession on Amazon for a mere $535.) Archive and Gutenberg are the first place I look for anything that's in the public domain. The copy of Moby Dick I'm currently reading was downloaded there ...

agreed--if you can handle the style of Suttree, and you've done BM, I'd say go back to The Orchard Keeper and make your way through the rest chronologically.

ps: great primer before you read OK: (file under shameless self-plug): Episode 2 of Reading McCarthy--Approaching the Orchard Keeper

Then, after you've read it...

Episode 3: Reading The Orchard Keeper, with Dianne Luce

The links for individual episodes are complicated, but let's give it a try:

Episode 7: Dennis McCarthy

Umm--in terms of when it is written, specifically, I can't remember except to say it predates the Border Trilogy. Stacey Peebles covers it in her book on McCarthy on film (more specifically: Cormac McCarthy and Performance: Page, Stage, Screen, 2017 U. Texas press), https://www.amazon.com/Cormac-McCarthy-Performance-Stage-Screen/dp/1477312315

But I was going to say, before Truth broke in, etc, that this predates the Border Trilogy. When he decided to novelize it he dug much more interesting and deeper holes for John Grady and Billy. Billy, particularly, is unformed until The Crossing ind the Billy Parham of COP doesn't seem similar to the one of The Crossing until you get to the coda.

I've heard Suttree was kind of his goodbye to the life of pool halls and drinking.

As for biographies, this isn't quite that but includes a lot of biographical info and excerpts of many letters between him and his editors: https://www.amazon.com/Cormac-McCarthys-Literary-Evolution-Crafting/dp/1621902471/ref=sr_1_156?dchild=1&keywords=cormac+mccarthy&qid=1607190478&sr=8-156

I refer to someone being a XXX Scholar when they publish a large amount of work on a particular author or subject. In this case, he published a book of criticism on McCarthy as a part of a larger series done by the publisher on particular authors. His PhD thesis was focused more on American Romantic literature and its influences from British authors (IIRC, I haven't read the doctoral thesis). He's also done a lot of work on Charles Dickens as well.

I'm sure there are other people whose output is almost universally on a particular author. Rich Wallach would be considered a McCarthy Scholar, but honestly I have no clue whether he's done work on a lot of other authors.

For instance: I don't know much about John Cant, but I'd consider him a McCarthy scholar based on this release alone (which is really good, so good I paid 40$ for it recently in preparation for a re-read of all of McCarthy's books): https://www.amazon.com/McCarthy-American-Exceptionalism-Studies-Literary/dp/0415875676/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465944508&sr=1-1&keywords=John+Cant+myth+american+exceptionalism

Often they use different theoretical frameworks with which to analyze a particular author.