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	Joaquin Murrieta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Between 1850 and 1853 these men, along with Murietta's right hand man "Three-Fingered Jack" (Manuel Garcia), were said to be responsible for the majority of cattle rustling, robberies, and murders that were committed in the Mother Lode area of the Sierra Nevadas.
		It tells a story of how his wife was raped and killed, his brother hanged for a crime he did not commit and how Murrieta swore to avenge them by killing all the Yanquis or gringos he could find.
		In the film, after Joaquin's death, his brother, Alejandro (Antonio Banderas) becomes the new Zorro, and later kills Captain Love in revenge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joaquin_Murietta (1111 words)

	California Reader - Joaquin Murietta - Intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The painting at the left, reputed to be painted from life by a Franciscan friar resident at Carmel, is said to show the face of the notorious bandit Joaquin Murrieta.
		Joaquin may have been several men, fused by the panic of the recently intruded miners from the east and the words of a newsman named John Rollins Ridge, into a single rumor and legend.
		Miller cut a lengthy confessional scene and the killing of Murietta by the California Rangers, leaving several sections which reflect his vague, transcendentalist philosophy.
	www.notfrisco.com /calmem/miller/joaquin.html (313 words)

	Clear Creek Management Area (CCMA), BLM, Hollister Field Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Named after Joaquin Murietta, who was known to frequent this area as well as the Cantua Creek area to the north, the three rocks jut imposingly from the ridge.
		Murietta turned to horse-thieving and robbery after his mining claim was illegally taken from him, his brother was murdered, and his wife was raped by the newly arriving American settlers.
		Joaquin's head was taken to Sacramento as evidence of his death and was displayed in a museum until the museum was destroyed by fire.
	www.blm.gov /ca/hollister/clear_creek_management_area.html (1862 words)

	California State Rangers
		When Joaquin refused to leave a place which promised him the hope of working out a fortune for himself, the fiercest ones of the gang left him prostrated from the force of blows with the butts of their revolvers.
		Murietta quietly gathered about him a band of outlaws most of whom were his own countrymen, but among the gang were desperados of all nationalities.
		On being observed, Joaquin and his men endeavored to escape on horseback, and in the conflict that followed Murietta and two of his men were killed, two captured, and the rest escaped.
	www.militarymuseum.org /CaliforniaStateRangers.html (1053 words)

	AmSpec Blog
		Enough of the mythology took hold that Murietta purportedly served as the inspiration for Zorro; he was also known as the Mexican Robin Hood.
		It wouldn’t be surprising to see Murietta invoked at our present day protests on behalf of illegal aliens, and he probably has been.
		”Joaquin” was still staring out at visitors as recently as 100 years ago this morning — on April 18, 1906, when the great quake shook the jar loose from its moorings, and off went the head for good, into a permanent mythology from which it has never been retrieved.
	www.spectator.org /blogger.asp?BlogID=2594 (420 words)

	Joaquin Murietta - Robin Hood of El Dorado
		Angry and unable to find work, Joaquin turned to a life of crime, along with other disposed foreign miners, who began to prey upon those who had forced them from their claims.
		Murrieta soon became one of the leaders of a band of ruffians called The Five Joaquins, who were said to have been responsible for cattle rustling, robberies, and murders that occurred in the gold rush area of the Sierra Nevadas between 1850 and 1863.
		When travel through the goldfields was made nearly impossible by the Five Joaquins, a bounty was placed on Murrieta's head for $5,000.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /CA-Murieta.html (1010 words)

	Who was Joaquin Miller?
		Joaquin Miller was a colorful figure who was well known in California literary and social circles.
		The name "Joaquin" was adapted later from the legendary California bandit, Joaquin Murietta.
		In his later years Joaquin Miller became known as "The Poet of The Sierras." Six volumes of his collected poems and other writing were published in 1909.
	www.joaquinmiller.org /About/miller.html (758 words)

	Joaquin Murietta, The Bandit of the Goldfields: A California Legend from American Folklore
		Joaquin Murietta and wife Rosita lived with his older brother Carlos in California.
		The Murietta brother's ignored their threats and continued to live peacefully on their farm and work in the gold-fields.
		Travel in the goldfields was made nearly impossible by the threat of Joaquin Murietta and his gang, so California's governor hired a group of rangers to track down and kill Joaquin.
	www.americanfolklore.net /folktales/ca10.html (658 words)

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		She replied: "I couldn't tell you if Joaquin Murietta came here, but Joel Harlan was coming from the mines one night, well about in 1852,1 guess, and he was followed, and he knew he was being followed, so he stopped at Robert Livermore's and told him he was being followed.
		Joaquin and his band were accused of stopping a stage and killing the driver and two women passengers.
		On the word of the remaining prisoner, a jury of 18 citizens declared that the severed head was indeed that of Joaquin Murietta.
	www.dublinonline.com /dublinhistory/JMurietta.html (2954 words)

	Joaquin Murieta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Many viewing the pickled part nodded knowingly, "Yes, that's Joaquin, I worked next to him in the mines." A young senorita, claiming to be Murieta's sister, denied that the head was that of her famous brother bandito.
		In Calaveras County, the Joaquin legend was represented by the one and only alleged photograph ever taken of the bandit.
		When the "Five Joaquins" act passed the state legislature in 1853, the appointed rangers were cautioned that there were numerous "respectable citizens" who bore the same names, including a Judge Joaquin Carrillo.
	www.sptddog.com /sotp/jomu.html (1485 words)

	Parks - Joaquin Miller "Poet of the Sierras," the man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Joaquin’s continuing travel generated fame at home and abroad, resulting in friendships with royalty and contemporary writers.
		After remaining from one of his sojourns, Joaquin wrote enthusiastic articles on the worth of trees that inspired public interest in tree planting and California’s first Arbor Day on November 27, 1886.
		Joaquin concentrated on planting thousands of trees each year and erecting monuments to salute creative ideas and people.
	www.oaklandnet.com /parks/parks/joaquinmiller_history_man.asp (362 words)

	Gold Rush Players: Joaquin Murieta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Joaquin the legend grew from a novel written by John Rollin Ridge in 1854, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta.
		But Joaquin the man was not the dashing, romantic figure that years of retelling Ridge’s story has made him out to be.
		When the Foreign Miners Tax was imposed in the early 1850’s, Joaquin was forced off his claim, as were most of the Mexican and Chinese miners in the Southern Mines.
	www.malakoff.com /grpjomu.htm (395 words)

	Brainstorm: The heroes battle ignorance and human weakness instead of competent evil - Page 3 - RPGnet Forums
		Murietta, according to one version of the Mexican-American legend, came up from Sonora in the nineteenth century with his wife and brother, just looking to prospect or farm or whatever.
		Murietta vowed vengeance, and as he pursued his tormentors, killing them one by one, he gradually became more and more monstrous, until finally all Californios, Mexican and white alike, feared him.
		In one version of the legend, Murietta is captured and beheaded; as his dying act, he again vows vengeance on his killers.
	forum.rpg.net /showthread.php?t=178749&page=3 (566 words)

	Biography of the Pioneer A. D. Hobson
		The mining claims adjoining that of the Hobson claims were owned and operated by a young Spaniard by the name of Joaquin Murietta, a fine looking affable fellow who often paid a pleasant visit to the Hobson cabin.
		Murietta had a very well paying claim on which he lived with his young and attractive wife to whom he was very devoted.
		Joaquin Murietta and his band with their sympathizers terrorized San Jose and the surrounding country rustling cattle, horses, and murdering and robbing.
	www.lofthouse.com /history/HobsonAD.html (6128 words)

	Mystery of the decapitated Joaquin - (Benicia Article)
		There are many stories about how Joaquin began a life of crime: that he was a miner unlawfully deprived of his claim, that either his sister or his wife was raped by white men, or that his brother was falsely accused of a crime and hanged.
		"Joaquin was immediately recognized and on his being aware of the fact, immediately sprang to his horse and endeavored to escape.
		Joaquin's gang had a reputation for being excellent marksmen, yet not one of the Rangers was wounded, though it appears the battle was fought at close range.
	www.benicianews.com /articles/index.cfm?artOID=4770&webpage=0 (3373 words)

	California Rangers / California State Police Division
		The California State Rangers were founded in 1853, by an act of the Legislature in Stockton, Californa, for the explict purpose of tracking down and capturing the outlaw; Joaquin Murietta and his hinchman, Three Finger Jack and all known associates.
		Joaquin Murietta according to historical archives he was born in Old Mexico, where he supposedly eloped with Rosita Carmel Feliz to the California Gold Fields.
		The inflated and exaggerated accounts of Joaquin's exploits and pressure from the white population of early California forced the legislature to take action.
	jimrobins.cherokee-online.com /rangers2.php (845 words)

	Tinkham Chapter X
		Sometimes the Mexicans themselves retaliated on the whites, and the bloody career of Joaquin Murietta and his gang was due in some measure to the brutality of a party of white men.
		At the time of his exploits Murietta was but nineteen years of age, yet he was the most daring, cool headed and quick witted desperado of any criminal of the coast.
		Joaquin, stifling the revengeful feelings in his mind, retired deeper into the mountains, where he hoped the Americans would not come.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ca/state1/tinkhamch10.html (3976 words)

	Zorro left his mark on 'Ztockton'
		Murietta, 20, his 17-year-old wife, Rosita Feliz, his brothers and other gold seekers trotted up from Mexico in spring 1849 and camped in Murphy's Diggings.
		Murietta was doing quite well panning on the Stanislaus River around Knight's Ferry.
		At some point, Murietta's quest for justice became outlawry, at least in the eyes of the government.
	www.recordnet.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051120/OPED0301/511200326/-1/OPED03 (635 words)

	The Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936 b 85') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Joaquin says he threw it, and Rosita's father tells him to leave the ranch.
		Joaquin goes after each of the four men, roping and dragging one and killing another in a fast-draw match.
		Joaquin drives her in the stagecoach to town, and Johnnie says his fiancée Louise is dead.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1936/RobinHoodofElDorado.html (499 words)

	Journal Page 6101/Joaquin Miller
		Joaquin Miller was born Cincinnatus Hiner Miller on September 8, 1837.
		Joaquin Miller described his decision to adopt the name at the conclusion of the Poem "Joaquin Murietta," in Volume II of his collected works.
		Murietta's legend in California is often equated with the legend of Robin Hood.
	www.solopublications.com /jurn6101.htm (2133 words)

	cinemas online
		Murietta and his gang plundered over $100,000 in gold and horses, as well as killing almost twenty Chinese mine workers.
		It told the tale of how Murietta’s wife was raped and killed, his brother hanged for a crime he did not commit and how Murietta swore to avenge them by killing all the Yankees or gringos he could find.
		You’ll recall it was actually the supposed brother of Joaquin, Alejandro, played by Antonio Banderas, who rose to fame after seeing his brother killed by one of the Rangers.
	www.cinemas-online.co.uk /website/soapbox.phtml?localpage=features/zorro/index (937 words)

	Outlaws - Joaquin Murieta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It affords amusement to our citizens to read the various accounts of the capture and decapitation of "the notorious Joaquin Murietta." The humbug is so transparent that it is surprising any sensible person can be imposed upon by the statements of the affairs which have appeared in the prints.
		Three of the party have returned and report that they were attacked by a party of Americans and the balance of their party, four in number, had been killed; that Joaquin Valenzuela, one of them, was killed as he was endeavoring to escape and that his head was cut off and taken as a trophy.
		It is too well known that Joaquin Murietta was not in the party nor was he the person killed by Captain Harry Love's party at the Panache Pass.
	www.jcs-group.com /oldwest/outlaws/murieta.html (1732 words)

	Joaquin Murrieta
		Joaquin Murrieta, California's most famous bandit, is alleged to have committed all sorts of crimes from petty larceny to horse and cattle theft, to bank robbery, rape and murder.
		The headquarters and hideout for the Murieta gang was in central California at Arroyo Cantua and Joaquín Rocks.
		Their purpose, to capture or kill a "party or gang of robbers commanded by the five Joaquin's," specified as Joaquin Botellier, Joaquin Carrillo, Joaquin Murrieta, Joaquin Ocomorenia, and Joaquin Valenzuela.
	www.picacho.org /interest/joaquin-murrieta.html (374 words)

	Chili Gulch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The so-called "Chilean War" resulted in several deaths and the expulsion of Chilean miners from their claims.
		Accounts vary widely about the details, with some including mention of Joaquin Murietta's involvement on the side of the Chileans.
		The events in Calaveras County projected the Murietta legend into the politics of Chile where anti-American politicians used it to garner votes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chili_Gulch (211 words)

	The Devil's Rangers - Jim Grand - Penguin Group (USA)
		Joaquin Murietta and his family sought their fortune as Mexican Forty-niners in California’s Gold Rush—but found bigotry and bloodshed instead.
		It was clear to Joaquin that bored or aggressive cowboys were victimizing Mexicans.
		Joaquin was determined to be that man. He had nothing else to live for.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780425210505,00.html (331 words)

	Untitled Document
		The head of one of the bandits was preserved in a jar and was made part of a traveling exhibition.
		Alguien fue robado por un hombre que fue identificado como Joaquin Valenzuela.
		Eso es cómo Joaquin Murietta llegó a ser un famoso Proscrito de oeste americano.
	www.nebo.edu /misc/learning_resources/history_money_outlaws/pages/bandito.htm (686 words)

	The Robin Hood of El Dorado - Synopsis - Moviefone
		Baxter plays the real-life Mexican bandit Joaquin Murietta, which the screenplay depicts as a South of the Border Jesse James.
		Murietta has turned criminal to avenge the death of his wife and brother at the hands of the Federales, and per the title robs the rich to give to the poor.
		Director William Wellman cowrote the script, which was based on a pulp novel that emphasized the sensuality of Murietta's various lady friends.
	movies.aol.com /movie/the-robin-hood-of-el-dorado/1072732/synopsis (175 words)

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		Murietta blocks whit quicken sight (2 intercept) Using the man to stay at close if needed Ok, I will add 1 more stealth with plasmic form, cost 1 blood....
		Murietta force awakens and misdirects the bleed of two, losing 2 blood.
		Joaquin blocks, Caitlin S:CE's with form of mist and the action continues, ousting Andrea.
	www.deckserver.net /games/jol216/moves.txt (1470 words)

	Sample History Article from the Dogtown Territorial Quarterly
		Joaquin Murietta leads the list, but only a notch below is the of Tiburcio Vasquez.
		His fame was nowhere near that of the legendary Joaquin Murietta.
		The sheriffs of Fresno, Tulare, San Joaquin, Santa Clara and Monterey counties all organized posses to hunt the Vasquez gang.
	www.californiahistory.com /sample.html (6256 words)

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