What can you tell me about Joaquin Murrieta?
Joe Manriquez
Whittier, California
Author John Boessenecker says, “Walter Noble Burns called him the Robin Hood of El Dorado. Not true, of course. He and his band killed 30 to 40 men, most of them unarmed Chinese miners who were vulnerable targets for robbery. He was slain by the California Rangers on Cantua Creek in the West San Joaquin Valley on July 25, 1853. The Rangers’ manhunt lasted just two months.” Reportedly, Ranger Capt. Harry Love

True West June 2019
In This Issue:
Features
Western Books & Movies
To The Point
Departments
- Did Old West Lawmen Carry their own Weapons?
- Did She or Didn’t She?
- Toppenish, Washington
- Did Doc Holliday “Open the Ball” Behind the O.K. Corral?
- Natural Disasters in Ancient Times
- What are the Origins of the Code of the West?
- Prehistoric Americans and Science
- Canyon Springs Ambush
- What History Has Taught Me: Walter Hill
- The Old Pueblo’s Historic Cuisine
- After the Battle for the Alamo, Did Any of the Wives or Children of Crockett, Bowie or Travis Visit the Site?
- Bringing Law and Order
- Old Wrist-Breaker
- Outhouses In Hotels
- Did the Punitive Expedition influence the start of the Immigration and Naturalization Service/U.S. Border Patrol?
- George Catlin Paints the West
- Bad Bill Longley
- What Can you Tell me about Joaquin Murrieta?
- Burial Site: Battle of the Alamo
- Guns That Won the West
- Butch Cassidy Would Do a Double Take
- What Exactly is Locoweed?