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Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes misspelled Murieta or Murietta) (c. 1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican figure of disputed historicity.
Joaquin Botellier, according to the state of California listed as one of the Five Joaquins, actually Joaquin Botellas, a Sonoran, who became an active member of Murrieta's personal band of the Gang. [4]: 96 Joaquin Carrillo, the younger brother of Jesus Carrillo and Murrieta's stepbrother.
In Minority Interaction in John Rollin Ridge's The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, Peter Christensen discusses how John Rollin Ridge, in his story of Joaquin Murieta, portrays Mexicans in America as courageous heroes, [25] mocks Chinese as being feeble, weak, and pitiful (although very rich), and perceives Indians as cowards. [25]
Based on real life events - Mexican peasant Joaquin Murieta and his wife go north to California to prospect for gold, finding only one white person, a marshal, who will befriend them. But after Murieta is beaten and robbed, and his wife killed by bandits, Murieta takes out his vengeance by forming a gang of outlaws who rob the countryside.
They were members of the California bandit Joaquin Murrieta's Five Joaquins Gang and their ranch in the mountains on the Arroyo Cantúa was the gathering place for the gangs herd of stolen horses and mustangs the gang would organize for the drive down to their ranch in Sonora, Mexico for later sale. [6]: 96, 97, 402–403
He was a known member of the Five Joaquins Gang riding with Joaquin Murrieta's band, as published in newspapers of the time. Another Pedro Gonzales, also a member of the Gang, a Californio that rode with Joaquin Valenzuela , and was killed on July 25, 1853 at the battle of the Arroyo Cantua , was uncovered decades later by the research of Frank ...
Murrieta Spring is a historic spring flowing from the south bank of Cantua Creek, about 100 yards above where El Camino Viejo crossed the Creek in the San Joaquin Valley. The Spring formed a pool in the arroyo where it emerged from the foot of the eastern mountains of the Diablo Range , a mile above where formerly California State Route 33 ...
The rocks were named for Joaquin Murrieta (1830-1853), a Sonoran 49'er turned bandit during the California Gold Rush after his death at the hands of the California Rangers in the Arroyo de Cantua. He and his gang used this region as a base and a refuge for their business of horse theft and robbery. [ 1 ]