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The Robin Hood of El Dorado: The Saga of Joaquin Murrieta, Famous Outlaw of California's Age of Gold (Historians of the Frontier and American West Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Walter Noble Burns
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 928985
Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0826321550
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.404092
EAN: 9780826321558
ASIN: 0826321550
Publication Date: October 1999
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Condition: some wear. text clean5/3. never read
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First published in 1932 and never reprinted since, this historical drama re-creates the life and adventures of Joaquin Murrieta, a Hispanic social rebel in California during the tumultuous Gold Rush. Published during the Great Depression, at a time of mass deportations of Hispanos to Mexico, this sympathetic portrait of Murrieta and Mexican Americans was a unique voice of social protest. The author romanticizes the pastoral society of Mexican California into which Murrieta was born and introduces the protagonist as a quiet, honest, unpretentious, and reserved resident of Saw Mill Flat, California. But the rape and murder of his wife, Rosita, by racist Anglo miners unleashes his vengeful rage. Picking up his pistols, Murrieta tracks and kills Rosita's murderers and defends Hispanos against violence and dispossession by rampaging gold rush miners. Richard Griswold del Castillo discusses the significance of Murrieta to twentieth-century Mexican Americans and Chicanos and of Burns's history to contemporary understanding of the mysterious social bandit.
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Outdated popular history January 4, 2008
Not a particularly well-written or well-researched book. Much research has been done since this book was first published in the 1930's--see particularly Bruce Thornton's balanced, honest account.
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