The Life And Adventures Of Joaquín Murieta

Author : John Rollin Ridge
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513288437

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The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta by John Rollin Ridge Pdf

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.

Author : Ireneo Paz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Americana
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009819025

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Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit, Joaquin Murrieta, His Exploits in the State of California by Ireneo Paz Pdf

Author : Walter Noble Burns
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826321558

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The Robin Hood of El Dorado by Walter Noble Burns Pdf

This historical drama re-creates the life and adventures of Joaquin Murrieta, a Hispanic social rebel in California during the tumultuous Gold Rush.

Author : George Lippard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : City and town life
ISBN : OSU:32435082247339

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The Quaker City, Or, The Monks of Monk-Hall by George Lippard Pdf

Author : Peter Murrieta,Jeffrey J. Mariotte
Publisher : Sundown Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0578989492

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Blood and Gold by Peter Murrieta,Jeffrey J. Mariotte Pdf

Joaquin Murrieta. In the California gold camps of the 1850s, his very name struck terror into the hearts of miners. A bounty was put on his head and a new law-enforcement agency created just to capture or kill him. Joaquin was a lover, a leader, and a legend. While terrorizing white miners, he earned respect and devotion from the many Mexicans and Latin Americans in the gold fields. Although he tried to live an honest, hardworking life, the racism and intolerance he encountered altered his course. Forced into a life of crime, he struck back, forming a band of outlaws and then an army of patriots, with the intent of driving the Americans from the land that had so recently been Mexican territory. The historical epic novel Blood and Gold: The Legend of Joaquin Murrieta, by Jeffrey J. Mariotte and Peter Murrieta, is the definitive account of the life and legend of the "Robin Hood of the El Dorado"--the first fictional treatment of these events that benefits from memories handed down through generations of the Murrieta family.

Author : Kellie M. Parker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780593526026

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Thin Air by Kellie M. Parker Pdf

Eight hours. Twelve contestants. A flight none of them might survive. A flight to Paris full of teenagers seeking opportunity turns deadly in this suspenseful, locked-door YA thriller. Perfect for fans of Diana Urban, Karen McManus, and Jessica Goodman. Seventeen-year-old boarding school student Emily Walters is selected for an opportunity of a lifetime—she’ll compete abroad for a cash prize that will cover not only tuition to the college of her choice, but will lift her mother and her out of poverty. But almost from the moment she and 11 other contestants board a private jet to Europe, Emily realizes somebody is willing to do anything to win. Between keeping an eye on her best friend’s flirty boyfriend and hiding her own dark secrets, she’s not sure how she’ll survive the contest, much less the flight. Especially when people start dying… As loyalties shift and secrets are revealed, Emily must figure out who to trust, and who’s trying to kill them all, before she becomes the next victim.

Author : Tommy Orange
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771073021

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There There by Tommy Orange Pdf

Here is a voice we have never heard--a voice full of poetry and rage, exploding onto the page with stunning urgency and force. Here is a story of several people, each of whom has private reasons for travelling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honour his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil Red Feather, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and has come to the powwow to dance in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion, and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and unspeakable loss. Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking, There There is a relentlessly paced multi-generational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people. An unforgettable debut.

Author : Diana Gabaldon
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780385686518

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The Official Outlander Coloring Book by Diana Gabaldon Pdf

Outlander joins the adult coloring book craze! Featuring 45 original black-and-white illustrations from the series. A coloring book featuring original illustrations inspired by the sights and scenes of Diana Gabaldon's bestselling Outlander series.

Author : Fae Myenne Ng
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316312189

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Bone by Fae Myenne Ng Pdf

"We were a family of three girls. By Chinese standards, that wasn't lucky. In Chinatown, everyone knew our story. Outsiders jerked their chins, looked at us, shook their heads. We heard things." In this profoundly moving novel, Fae Myenne Ng takes readers into the hidden heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, to the world of one family's honor, their secrets, and the lost bones of a "paper father." Two generations of the Leong family live in an uneasy tension as they try to fathom the source of a brave young girl's sorrow. Oldest daughter Leila tells the story: of her sister Ona, who has ended her young, conflicted life by jumping from the roof of a Chinatown housing project; of her mother Mah, a seamstress in a garment shop run by a "Chinese Elvis"; of Leon, her father, a merchant seaman who ships out frequently; and the family's youngest, Nina, who has escaped to New York by working as a flight attendant. With Ona and Nina gone, it is up to Leila to lay the bones of the family's collective guilt to rest, and find some way to hope again. Fae Myenne Ng's luminous debut explores what it means to be a stranger in one's own family, a foreigner in one's own neighborhood--and whether it's possible to love a place that may never feel quite like home.

Author : Graeme Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134528325

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British Cultural Studies by Graeme Turner Pdf

is a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. Turner offers an accessible overview of the central themes that have informed British cultural studies: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse. Beginning with a history of cultural studies, Turner discusses the work of such pioneers as Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E. P.Thompson, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. He then explores the central theorists and categories of British cultural studies: texts and contexts; audience; everyday life; ideology; politics, gender and race. The third edition of this successful text has been fully revised and updated to include: * How to apply the principles of cultural studies and how to read a text * An overview of recent ethnographic studies * Discussion of anthropological theories of consumption * Questions of identity and new ethnicities * How to do cultural studies, and an evaluation of recent research methodologies * A fully updated and comprehensive bibliography

Author : John Rollin Ridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : California
ISBN : UOM:69015000005799

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Poems by John Rollin Ridge Pdf

Author : Alexander L. Kaufman,Penny Vlagopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429590177

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Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales by Alexander L. Kaufman,Penny Vlagopoulos Pdf

This collection of scholarly essays presents new work from in an emerging line of inquiry: modern outlaw narratives and the textual and cultural relevance of food and feasting. Food, its preparation and its consumption, is presented in outlaw narratives as central points of human interaction, community, conflict, and fellowship. Feast scenes perform a wide variety of functions, serving as cultural repositories of manners and behaviors, catalysts for adventure, or moments of regrouping and redirecting narratives. The book argues that modern outlaw narratives illuminate a potent cross-cultural need for freedom, solidarity, and justice, and it examines ways in which food and feasting are often used to legitimate difference, create discord, and manipulate power dynamics.

Author : T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451226119

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L.A. Outlaws by T. Jefferson Parker Pdf

Investigating the latest crime scene of a celebrity thief who has been staging lucrative heists and donating the spoils to charity, rookie deputy Charlie Hood is forced to make an ethics-testing decision when the thief is targeted by a professional killer. Reprint.

Author : Domino Renee Perez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292718111

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There Was a Woman by Domino Renee Perez Pdf

"How is it that there are so many lloronas?" A haunting figure of Mexican oral and literary traditions, La Llorona permeates the consciousness of her folk community. From a ghost who haunts the riverbank to a murderous mother condemned to wander the earth after killing her own children in an act of revenge or grief, the Weeping Woman has evolved within Chican@ imaginations across centuries, yet no truly comprehensive examination of her impact existed until now. Tracing La Llorona from ancient oral tradition to her appearance in contemporary material culture, There Was a Woman delves into the intriguing transformations of this provocative icon. From La Llorona's roots in legend to the revisions of her story and her exaltation as a symbol of resistance, Domino Renee Perez illuminates her many permutations as seductress, hag, demon, or pitiful woman. Perez draws on more than two hundred artifacts to provide vivid representations of the ways in which these perceived identities are woven from abstract notions—such as morality or nationalism—and from concrete, often misunderstood concepts from advertising to television and literature. The result is a rich and intricate survey of a powerful figure who continues to be reconfigured.

Author : Mae Brussell
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781627310062

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The Essential Mae Brussell by Mae Brussell Pdf

"Mae's work may be more relevant now than in her heyday. Like those of many other freedom fighters throughout history, the ghost of Mae Brussell will never rest till justice is served."—Tim Cahill "The main Brussell thesis, if I dare risk commit the sin of summary on her complex work, was that an ex-Nazi scientist-Old Boy OSS clique in the CIA using Mafia hit men changed the course of American history by bumping off one and all, high and low, who became an irritant to them."—Warren Hinkle, San Francisco Examiner columnist The Essential Mae Brussell is a compilation of chilling essays and radio transcripts by the seminal American anti-fascist researcher, famously supported by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Mae Brussell was a married housewife with five children living in southern California before she took up the study of fascism in America. After the Kennedy assassination, she purchased the twenty-six-volume Warren Commission Report, and compiled, for herself, evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald was, as he maintained after his arrest, a "patsy." She had a regular radio broadcast on KLRB, an independent FM radio station in Carmel, California. She also published articles in Paul Krassner's the Realist, Hustler, People's Almanac, and the Berkeley Barb. In 1983, Mae's hour-long program shifted to KAZU-FM in Pacific Grove, California, and she remained on the air weekly until her final broadcast in June 1988. On October 3, 1988, at sixty-six, Brussell died of cancer.