"Here is the biography of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West, for decades a source of fear and legend in the newly founded state of California. To both Mexicans and Indians, Murrieta became a symbol of resistance to the displacement and oppression visited on them in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), particularly by the Forty-Niners who flooded into the region during the California gold rush.
In his introduction, literary critic Luis Leal has researched and written the first definitive history of the Murrieta legend in its various incarnations. The Ireneo Paz biography was first published in Mexico City in 1904
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Gold Fever
- Social Bandits?
- Antecedents
- When the Name Joaquín Came to Mean
- FROM CALAVERAS [Per Brown’s Express]
- Principal Sources for the Study of Joaquín Murrieta
- First Reliable Identification
- From Sonora to California
- The Metamorphosis
- The First Adventure
- The Pursuit
- The Death of Joaquín
- John Rollin Ridge and His Work
- Ridge’s Work Plagiarized
- The Translations
- Ireneo Paz
- Preliminaries
- The Head of Joaquín and the Hand of Jack
- Murrieta: Mexican or Chilean?
- Ridge Viewed as Fiction
- Imitators and Embellishers
- Walter Noble Burns
- Adolfo Carrillo
- The Nineteenth Century: Miller and Stewart
- The Twentieth Century: Gonzales and Elizondo
- In Nineteenth-CenturyTheater
- Twentieth-Century Theater: The Chilean Perspective
- In Film
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chronology
- Chapters
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV
- Chapter XXVI
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