Blood Meridian: Part I - The Definitive Audiobook
Prison Sandal for Louis Toadvine
(Rugged, playful tone of voice)
A branded fugitive, Toadvine first appears in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he almost murders 'The Kid' after a petty altercation, though they soon become compatriots and burn down a hotel together. The two find themselves in one another’s company again while imprisoned in Chihuahua City along with Grannyrat. Toadvine secures their freedom by enlisting them all in Glanton’s gang of scalp hunters.
Toadvine is a somewhat complex character - he is a capricious murderer who goes so far as to kill a prison overseer and macabrely fashion his golden teeth into a necklace, yet he nonetheless violently objects when The Judge plays with, only to slaughter and scalp, an Apache infant.
Some time after the Yuma massacre on the Colorado River and its aftermath - Toadvine along with David Brown - is executed by hanging in Los Angeles.
*Recurring appearances*
- texan
- male adult
- male senior
1. Tap on the door now ... You better tap louder than that. This man drinks some. 2. Kick his mouth in. Kick it! (Crazily laughing) Kick him! Aw, kick him, honey!
3. How do you like city life? I keep waitin for it to take with me but it aint done it. 4. Gentlemens, I'll guarangoddamntee ye I know what that there is about.
5. His name is Glanton ... He's got a contract with Trias. They're to pay him a hundred dollars a head for scalps and a thousand for Gomez's head. I told him there was three of us. Gentlemens, we're gettin out of this shithole! 6. He knows that. He said he'd find anybody that was a guaranteed hand and take it out of their shares. So dont let on like you aint no seasoned indiankiller cause I claimed we was three of the best.
