Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit Joaquin Murrieta: His Exploits in the State of California
Chicago. Regan Publishing Corporation. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x,174 pages.
Vivid and colorful tale of the California Gold Rush's most famous Mexican outlaw, portraying Murrieta as a wronged Sonoran miner who becomes a legendary avenger of his people against the gold-seekers who flooded California from around the world in the 1850s.
Covers Murrieta's origins, his legendary exploits, and his death at the hands of Capt. Harry Love of the California Rangers in Fresno County in 1853. Capt. Love brought Murrieta's severed head in a jar of alcohol to authorities to claim the bounty. Murrieta is buried in Hornitos, California.
Originally published in Mexico in 1904. Ireneo Paz was the grandfather of Nobel Prize winning writer, Octavio Paz.
A lovely copy of this scarce edition.
Ref. SIX GUNS 193
both a feared outlaw and a symbol of Mexican and indigenous resistance in post-Mexican War California.
Ireneo Paz is the grandfather of.
Bound in orange cloth over boards with spine and upper board titled in black, light brown endpapers, burnt-orange topstain. A few tiny rubs to binding extremities, old dealer tag at lower inner margin of rear pastedown. Early gift inscription (1933) on preliminary blank leaf, lightly embossed monogram seal on subsequent blank leaf. Pictorial jacket has minor edge wear including shallow chips and a couple of short, closed tears. Overall near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Item #2201
Price: $500