Tag: John Rollin Ridge

  • The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit Penguin Classics 2017-07-10 208 pages 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780143132653 Ebook ISBN: 9780525504580 John Rollin Ridge (1827-1867) Foreword by Diana Gabaldon Introduction by Hsuan L. Hsu Notes by Hsuan L. Hsu The first novel to feature a Mexican American hero: an adventure tale…

  • John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta: Sensation, Hispanicism, and Cosmopolitanism Western American Literature Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 321-349 DOI: 10.1353/wal.2015.0008 John C. Havard, Assistant Professor Department of English and Philosophy Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama The mixed-race Cherokee poet, journalist, and novelist John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated…

  • In 1854, a Cherokee Indian called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of Joaquín 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,…

  • Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place University of Oklahoma Press 2001 288 pages 5.25″ x 8.5″ Illustrations: 17 b&w photos Paperback ISBN: 9780806133812 Louis Owens (1948-2002), Professor of English and Native American Studies University of California, Davis In this challenging and often humorous book, Louis Owens examines issues of Indian identity and relationship to the…