Joaquin Murieta -- Death of a Bandit King

[jeff of pa]

Tulare Advance-Register (Tulare, California) 04 Dec 1963, Wed

 

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Tulare Advance-Register (Tulare, California) 04 Dec 1963, Wed

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Gidday Jeff

I suspect the alleged severed head of Joaquin Murieta perhaps made more money being shown as a sideshow attraction than his career of robbery and murder?

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[aa battery]

Its all wrong they paid him to go back to Mexico where he died.

 

[autofull]

it was written to look for a large flat rock with a cross scraped onto its face. doc noss had such a rock on his pickup truck once. there did exist a picture of this. perhaps he was getting rid of markers again.

 

[Old Bookaroo]

JoP:

Thank you for posting that!

Did you find the remaining two parts? I'd like to read them.

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Regarding The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the celebrated California bandit by "Yellow Bird" (John Rollin Ridge) [1854], Ramon F. Adams in Six Guns wrote:

"The first book published about Murieta. Nearly all those that followed were pirated from it. The character Murieta was invented by Ridge, who created a legend out of while cloth. He even recorded the bandit's conversations and inner thoughts. References to Murieta in standard histories of California are founded upon Ridge's fiction."

Adams recommends the University of Oklahoma 1955 reprint (only one copy of the first edition is believe extant) with an authoritative introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson, "...the man who perhaps has made a more thorough study of the Murieta legend than any other man."

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo

 

[Old Bookaroo]

According to Joseph Henry Jackson's excellent introduction to the University of Oklahoma Press edition of John Rollin Ridge's ("Yellow Bird") The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta The Celebrated California Bandit (Norman, Oklahoma: 1955) the buried treasure yarn was first published in Sunset Magazine in 1925.

I very much doubt there's any more truth to it then there is in any other part of the Murieta legend. It's fiction from soda to hock.

Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo