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Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: Celebrated California Bandit Volume 4
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Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: Celebrated California Bandit Volume 4 Paperback - 1977

by John Rollin Ridge


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In 1854, a Cherokee Indian called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of Joaquin Murieta, based on the California criminal career of a 19th century Mexican bandit. Today this folk hero has been written into state histories, sensationalized in books, poems, and articles throughout America, Spain, France, Chile, and Mexico, and made into a motion picture.

The Ridge account is here reproduced from the only known copy of the first edition, owned by Thomas W. Streeter, of Morristown, New Jersey. According to it, the passionate, wronged Murieta organized an outlaw company numbering over 2,000 men, who for two years terrorized gold-rush Californians by kidnapping, bank robberies, cattle thefts, and murders. So bloodthirsty as to be considered five men, Joaquin was aided by several hardy subordinates, including the sadistic cutthroat, "Three-Fingered Jack." Finally, the state legislature authorized organization of the Mounted Rangers to capture the outlaws. The drama is fittingly climaxed by the ensuing chase, "good, gory" battle, and the shocking fate of the badmen.

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I SIT down to write somewhat concerning the life and character of Joaquin Murieta, a man as remarkable in the annals of crime as any of the renowned robbers of the Old or New World, who have preceded him; and I do this, not for the purpose of ministering to any depraved taste for the dark and horrible in human action, but rather to contribute my mite to those materials out of which the early history of California shall one day be composed.

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  • Title Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: Celebrated California Bandit Volume 4
  • Author John Rollin Ridge
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 210
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
  • Date 1977-08-15
  • ISBN 9780806114293 / 0806114290
  • Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.68 x 4.7 x 0.63 in (19.51 x 11.94 x 1.60 cm)
  • Reading level 1430
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Geographic Orientation: California
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