My Confession

Recollections of a Rogue

By: Samuel Chamberlain

Narrated by: Nick Gallagher

Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession is a quintessential American tale of a young man's unbridled escapades across the vastness of the Western Frontier. From humble beginnings in Boston, Chamberlain journeyed to Texas to fight in the Mexican-American War and eventually fell in with the notorious Glanton Gang, a brutal group of scalp-hunters immortalized in Cormac McCarthy's Western masterpiece Blood Meridian.

Within this audiobook, Chamberlain leaves no stone unturned, providing an immersive account of the Mexican War, the unyielding men who fought in it, and a sobering portrait of the lawlessness of the American frontier.

Public Domain (P)2023 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

An Abrupt Ending

I have to wonder why the book ended so suddenly. Did he ever get to avenge his wife and murder the man who took her? I have so many questions

Such a great work of art*

Even if the protagonist is ultimately a ne’er-do-well 👍 the only problem is minimum word counts for reviews.

Source for Blood Meridian

Go to the last hour of the audio book to learn about the inspiration for Blood Meridian.

Narrator was great, though I wish he had learned to correctly pronounce Spanish.

Primary Source

These first hand accounts paint a much more detailed and interesting portrait of life during the time than you get from the selected excerpts of historians or the narrative spin of a documentary. Always worth a listen.

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everyone was very mean in the 1840's,nobody liked each other and it puts into perspective white people weren't the only bad fellas then