Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit Joáquin Murrieta.
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- 9781611922059
- 979.404092
- F865.M96 -- P3913 2001eb
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Pastoral Myth -- Gold Fever -- Social Bandits? -- Antecedents -- When the Name Joaquin Came to Mean -- FROM CALAVERAS [ Per Brown's Express] -- Principal Sources for the Study of JoaquÃn Murrieta -- First Reliable Identification -- From Sonora to California -- The Metamorphosis -- The First Adventure -- The Pursuit -- The Death of Joaquin -- John Rollin Ridge and His Work -- Ridge's Work Plagiarized -- The Translations -- Ireneo Paz -- Preliminaries -- The Head of Joaquin 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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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