{"id":40065,"date":"2015-02-20T20:03:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40065"},"modified":"2017-03-31T18:08:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:08:41","slug":"life-and-adventures-of-joaquin-murieta-celebrated-california-bandit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40065","title":{"rendered":"Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: Celebrated California Bandit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oupress.com\/ECommerce\/Book\/Detail\/639\/Life%20and%20Adventures%20of%20Joaquin%20Murieta\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: Celebrated California Bandit<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oupress.com\" target=\"_blank\">University of Oklahoma Press<\/a><br \/>\n1977 (Originally published in 1854 by W. R. Cooke and Company)<br \/>\n210 pages<br \/>\n5&#8243; x 7.5&#8243;<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780806114293<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Rollin_Ridge\" target=\"_blank\">John Rollin Ridge<\/a> (1827-1867)<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"502\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"bottom\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oupress.com\/ECommerce\/Book\/Detail\/639\/Life%20and%20Adventures%20of%20Joaquin%20Murieta\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/4\/45\/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Murieta_Cover_Page.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oupress.com\/ECommerce\/Book\/Detail\/639\/Life%20and%20Adventures%20of%20Joaquin%20Murieta\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oupress.com\/ECommerce\/DynamicContent\/ImagesBooks\/9780806114293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In 1854, a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherokee\" target=\"_blank\">Cherokee Indian<\/a> called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joaquin_Murrieta\" target=\"_blank\">Joaqu\u00edn Murieta<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Ridge account is here reproduced from the only known copy of the first edition, owned by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Winthrop_Streeter,_Sr.\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas W. Streeter<\/a>, of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morristown,_New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\">Morristown, New Jersey<\/a>. 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, &#8220;Three-Fingered Jack.&#8221; Finally, the state legislature authorized organization of the Mounted Rangers to capture the outlaws. The drama is fittingly climaxed by the ensuing chase, &#8220;good, gory&#8221; battle, and the shocking fate of the badmen.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire book\u00a0(Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3rocks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Three Rocks Research<\/a>)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.3rocks.org\/publications\/joaquin_murieta.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1854, a Cherokee Indian called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of Joaqu\u00edn 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1245,11,459,8,17,20],"tags":[455,19378,16537,19377,1770,19376],"class_list":["post-40065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-california","tag-joaquin-murieta","tag-john-rollin-ridge","tag-three-rocks-research","tag-university-of-oklahoma-press","tag-yellow-bird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53152,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40065\/revisions\/53152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}