The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit, is a unique book in many ways. In 1854, it was the first novel published in California, and it is also the first novel written by a Native American. Yellow Bird was the son and grandson of famous Cherokee chiefs, and he lived a vigorous and dangerous life as an Indian. But he was also a well-educated and literate man, known in the white man's world as John Rollin Ridge. Both a novelist and poet, Yellow Bird made his living in California as a ...
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The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit, is a unique book in many ways. In 1854, it was the first novel published in California, and it is also the first novel written by a Native American. Yellow Bird was the son and grandson of famous Cherokee chiefs, and he lived a vigorous and dangerous life as an Indian. But he was also a well-educated and literate man, known in the white man's world as John Rollin Ridge. Both a novelist and poet, Yellow Bird made his living in California as a newspaperman, ending his short life in Grass Valley as the editor of the Grass Valley National newspaper, of which he was a part owner. He was just forty when he died, but he had lived a fuller life than most. The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta was Yellow Bird's only novel, but it left an enduring mark. It not only sparked a number of knockoffs but also created the enduring myth of Joaquin Murieta. In addition, it was the genesis of the "dime novel" industry of the late nineteenth-century that persists even today as the paperback Westerns found in every bookstore, newsstand, and even supermarket. It was truly a first in that regard. But it is worth reading for more than those reasons -- it is a colorful and romantic story that fires the imagination of the reader, portraying in no uncertain terms what life was like in those times.
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Add this copy of Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated to cart. $12.60, very good condition, Sold by TextbookRush rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Grandview Hts, OH, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by Poitin Press.
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Add this copy of Joaquin Murieta: the Brigand Chief of California to cart. $150.00, like new condition, Sold by Argonaut Book Shop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1932 by The Grabhorn Press.
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Fine. Book Reprinted from the 1859 edition. First published in San Francisco in 1854. One of 400 copies, the first title of the Rare Americana Series by the Grabhorn Press. 116pp. Introduction by Francis P. Farquhar. 8 color reproductions from drawings by Charles Nahl, silhouettes by Valenti Angelo, folding broadside facsimile. Cloth-backed boards. A bit of offsetting (as usual) and very slight foxing to endpapers, but a very fine copy with plain dust jacket. The first book written on the celebrated Murieta, transforming him from a sanguinary outlaw to a mythical hero. Farquhar's introduction clarifies the confusion surrounding both the myth and the various editions of the book. "Joaquin Murieta...ranks as the most famous Gold Rush brigand...John R. Ridge, a.k.a. Yellow Bird, was the first to make known the story of Murieta in book form" (Kurutz). The tipped-in folding broadside is a facsimile of the original, sold by the Argonaut Book shop in their third California and the West catalogue, c.1942. [Kurutz: 533.1k; Zamorano Eighty: 64n].
