Recommendations for a bloody, violent Western novel that isn’t Blood Meridian?

You've read McCarthy's Border Trilogy, I take it?

The Son by Philipp Meyer

As someone else said, The Son. Also might want to check out Shadow Country by Matthiessen.

And if you haven’t read it, grab Empire of the Summer Moon immediately. Nonfiction, but reads like a McCarthy novel.

Looks like I have some to add to my list.

Warlock by Oakley Hall. Long but worth it

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And if you haven’t read it, grab Empire of the Summer Moon immediately. Nonfiction, but reads like a McCarthy novel.

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This is the most violent one I've ever read, and it's based on actual events and first hand accounts. Savages are brutal, but this doesn't pull any punches about the atrocities committed by Whites, either.

Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove series. Fantastic reads. Read all four in the order of the story line which is not the order in which they were written.

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Is this the book the TV series with Pierce Brosnan was based on?

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Yes

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Been in the mood for something like Blood Meridian lately.

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Thanks for a starting this thread, I just finished the Blood Meridian audio book, wow. Hard to keep track while listening and just got the book to read through it and study it a little more.

Mistborn: The Alloy of Law

Slightly different take on a western but it is pretty brutal