John Joel Glanton
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John Joel Glanton was a member of the US Army during the mid 1800s. He later became a scalphunter for hire, killing Apaches and others. [1]
A fictionalized Glanton features prominently in Cormac McCarthys novel Blood Meridian, leading a gang of scalpers that also includes the villain Judge Holden.
There is a well-drawn and well-narrated short comic-strip version of Chamberlin's account of the Glanton-Holden gang in The Big Book Of The Weird Wild West, published by Paradox Press in 1998.