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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.
The Five Joaquins were a mid-19th-century outlaw gang in California which, according to the state legislature, was led by five men, identified as follows: "... the five Joaquins, whose names are Joaquin Murrieta, Joaquin Ocomorenia, Joaquin Valenzuela, Joaquin Botellier, and Joaquin Carrillo, and their banded associates."
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.
Initiating one of Amazon’s most ambitious titles ever in Latin America, production has begun on “La cabeza de Joaquín Murrieta,” the region’s first Western Amazon Original series, Amazon ...
Robin Hood of El Dorado is a 1936 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman for MGM.It stars Warner Baxter as real-life Mexican folk hero, Joaquin Murrieta, and Ann Loring as his love interest, with Bruce Cabot as Bill Warren and J. Carrol Naish as Murrietta's notorious partner, Three-Fingered Jack.
Ricardo Montalbán as Joaquin Murrieta (as Ricardo Montalban) Slim Pickens as Three-Finger Jack; Roosevelt Grier as Morgan; Jim McMullan as Arkansaw; Earl Holliman as Shad Clay; Ina Balin as Otilia Ruiz; Robert J. Wilke as Gant; Miriam Colon as Claudina, Otilia's Servant; Anthony Caruso as Don Miguel Ruiz; Eddra Gale as Dolores the Bartender
Chapter seven of John Rollin Ridge: His Life and Works by J. W. Parins gives an extensive and detailed historical, political, social, and cultural context of The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta. Parins highlights California and Mexican/American interaction during the time the book was published, the book's various publications and ...
Junior Santiago, 10, is among the new generation of participants in the 45-year-old Joaquín Murrieta Horse Pilgrimage. Young trick roper is following in the footsteps of Joaquín Murrieta’s ...