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title	:	The Life and Adventures of Joaqun Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit The Western Frontier Library ; 4
author	:	Ridge, John Rollin.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806114290
print isbn13	:	9780806114293
ebook isbn13	:	9780585148014
language	:	English
subject	Murieta, Joaqun,--d. 1853--Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life--California--Fiction, Revolutionaries--California--Fiction, Biographical fiction, Western stories.
publication date	:	1955
lcc	:	PZ3.R4359Li 1955eb
ddc	:	813
subject	:	Murieta, Joaqun,--d. 1853--Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life--California--Fiction, Revolutionaries--California--Fiction, Biographical fiction, Western stories.

Page v The Life and Adventures of Joaqun Murieta The Celebrated California Bandit By Yellow Bird [John Rollin Ridge] with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN AND LONDON

Page vi Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 55-6358 ISBN: 0-8061-1429-0 The Life and Adventures of Joaqun Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit is Volume 4 in The Western Frontier Library. New edition copyright 1955 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Page vii Contents Introduction Joseph Henry Jackson Page xi Publishers' Preface Page 2 Editor's Preface Page 4 Life of Joaqun Murieta Page 7

Page ix Illustrations Murieta, as pictured by Nahl Page xxviii Poster Advertising Exhibition of Bandits' Remains Page xxxiv Joaqun Murieta, the California Bandit Page 6 Captain Harry Love Page 86

Page xi Introduction I John Rollin Ridge's Life and Adventures of Joaqun Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit was published in San Francisco in 1854. Probably because its author had become moderately well known in the newspapers and magazines of the time as "Yellow Bird"the name which Ridge, half-Cherokee, was given by his fellow-tribesmenthe publisher used this name on the title page. So far one copy only of the original edition has turned up; it rests in the collection of Thomas W. Streeter of Morristown, New Jersey, specialist in Western Americana, who has generously allowed this first reprinting of his unique copy a century after it appeared. On its title page someone has written in "John R. Ridge" under the printed "Yellow Bird." The significance of Ridge's story, however, does not derive wholly from the fact that but one copy survives. It is not going too far to say that in this little book Ridge actually created California's most enduring myth. It is true that in the early years of the gold rush there was a Murieta. But it was Ridge's Life of that outlaw, as preposterous a fiction as any the Dime Libraries ever invented, that sent this vague bandit on his way to be written

Page xii into the California histories, sensationalized in magazine pieces and books in several languages, and eventually to be made the subject of a "biography" which was brought to the motion-picture screen. Folk legends of this sort, to be sure, grow up in every era and in every land; but it is seldom possible to put one's finger squarely upon the moment when such a mythical figure makes his first bow. In this case it can be done. It is Ridge's distinction that he produced the right fiction at the right moment and in the right place. California badly needed a folk hero and had none. Ridge provided one to fit the specifications. As the reader will discover, this Life of Joaqun Murieta is a blood-and-thunder affair, abounding in slaughter, in hair's-breadth escapes and all the rest of the pattern-mythology that accompanies such folk tales. There may be a deeper reason, however, for the violence and especially the full-scale development of the motive of revenge. In his admirable study, San Francisco's Literary Frontier, Professor Franklin Walker suggests that Ridge may have written so bloodthirstily because his own youth was wrapped up with violence and blood. The theory has a good deal to recommend it. Ridge's grandfather, the Cherokee leader, Major Ridge, lived on his Georgia acres in the handsome style of the well-to-do Southern planter. He had sent his son, John Ridge, to New England to be educated, and when the boy married a white girl he provided a house for the couple on his estate. There John Rollin Ridge was born in 1827.

Page xiii Trouble with the whites had been coming for a long time in Georgia. The Cherokee were doing too wellthat was the long and short of it. Finally the federal government stepped in. If the Cherokee people would migrate to the Indian Territory, certain guarantees would be made; they might live in peace, "out West" where there were fewer white men to covet their lands.

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