Author: Joseph E. BadgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Joaquin, the Terrible
Author: Joseph E. BadgerJoaquin, the Terrible
Author: Joseph Edward BadgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bandit, outlaw, and highwayman stories
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta
Author: John Rollin RidgePublisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513288431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (1854) is a novel by John Rollin Ridge. Published under his birth name Yellow Bird, from Cheesquatalawny in Cherokee, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta was the first novel from a Native American author. Despite its popular success worldwide—the novel was translated into French and Spanish—Ridge’s work was a financial failure due to bootleg copies and widespread plagiarism. Recognized today as a groundbreaking work of nineteenth century fiction, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta is a powerful novel that investigates American racism, illustrates the struggle for financial independence among marginalized communities, and dramatizes the lives of outlaws seeking fame, fortune, and vigilante justice. Born in Mexico, Joaquin Murieta came to California in search of gold. Despite his belief in the American Dream, he soon faces violence and racism from white settlers who see his success as a miner as a personal affront. When his wife is raped by a mob of white men and after Joaquin is beaten by a group of horse thieves, he loses all hope of living alongside Americans and turns to a life of vigilantism. Joined by a posse of similarly enraged Mexican-American men, Joaquin becomes a fearsome bandit with a reputation for brutality and stealth. Based on the life of Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo, also known as The Robin Hood of the West, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta would serve as inspiration for Johnston McCulley’s beloved pulp novel hero Zorro. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta is a classic work of Native American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Scary
Author: Publisher: Hylas Publishing
ISBN: 9781592581481
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Kids are fascinated by the gross and gory, and this book certianly delivers the gruesome goods.
Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit JoaquÕn Murrieta
Author: Ireneo PazPublisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781611922059
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Here, in its original English translation, is the dime-novelesque biography of one of the most infamous bandits in the history of the Old West, for decades a source of fear and legend in the state of California. To Mexicans and Indians, however, Joaquin Murrieta became a symbol of resistance to the displacement and oppression visited on them in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), particularly by the "'Forty-Niners" who flooded into California from all over the world during the Gold Rush. In his introduction, literary critic Luis Leal has researched and written the first definitive history of the Murrieta legend in its various incarnations. Ireneo Paz's Spanish-language biography was first published in Mexico City in 1904; it was translated into English by Frances P. Belle in 1925. This edition includes several line-drawings that appeared in the original volume, heightening the strong sense evoked here of this turbulent period in U. S. history.
American Sensations
Author: Shelley StreebyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052093587X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This innovative cultural history investigates an intriguing, thrilling, and often lurid assortment of sensational literature that was extremely popular in the United States in 1848--including dime novels, cheap story paper literature, and journalism for working-class Americans. Shelley Streeby uncovers themes and images in this "literature of sensation" that reveal the profound influence that the U.S.-Mexican War and other nineteenth-century imperial ventures throughout the Americas had on U.S. politics and culture. Streeby's analysis of this fascinating body of popular literature and mass culture broadens into a sweeping demonstration of the importance of the concept of empire for understanding U.S. history and literature. This accessible, interdisciplinary book brilliantly analyzes the sensational literature of George Lippard, A.J.H Duganne, Ned Buntline, Metta Victor, Mary Denison, John Rollin Ridge, Louisa May Alcott, and many other writers. Streeby also discusses antiwar articles in the labor and land reform press; ideas about Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua in popular culture; and much more. Although the Civil War has traditionally been a major period marker in U.S. history and literature, Streeby proposes a major paradigm shift by using mass culture to show that the U.S.-Mexican War and other conflicts with Mexicans and Native Americans in the borderlands were fundamental in forming the complex nexus of race, gender, and class in the United States.
Joaquin Murrieta
Author: Humberto Garza ElizondoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Joaquin Murrieta
Author: Humberto Garza ElizondoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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The Questing Beast
Author: Gillian BennettPublisher: Continuum
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Marcos Martial Law
Author: Raissa Espinosa- RoblesPublisher:
ISBN: 9786219544306
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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