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.

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)

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