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FOREWORD

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ALIFORHIA BANDIT HISTORY IS OBSCURED IN A L TERARY BLEND
- ~~:,JPI·=;,-'-- OF LEGEND, FOLKLORE, AND INTERMINGLED FACT AND FICTION.
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• _,~ \ - H1STOR ANS DISAGREE ON OUTLAWS NAMES AS WELL AS DATES
- '. . AND DETAILS OF THEIR ACTIVITIES.AUTHORS LESS DEDICATED
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TO FACT OFTEN DEPICT SOME NOTORIOUS BADMAN AS A ROMANTIC MIXTURE
OF ZORRO AND ROBIN Hooo, TYPICALLY AGAINST A BACKGROUND OF BlOOD
AND 1HUNDER WHICH PALES ONLY IN COMPARISON WITH THE CUMULATIVE
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MAYHEM OF TODAY S GUNSMOKE.
JoAQU(N MuRlETA IS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF SUCH CONFUSION No ONE
MAN (OULD POSSIBLY HAVE PERPETRATED SO MAN'1' FAR SEPARATED, SIM-
ULTANEOUSL't' OCCURR\MG CR MES, OR COULD HAVE NHABITEO SUCH AN
I NCR EDIBLE NUMBER rn= ''MuRIETA,. (AVES, RocKS AND FAVORITt LAIRS.
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IN THE 1850 5, BANDl15 RAN RAMPA MT O\JER MOST OF (ALIFORN A
AND A REMARKABLE NUMBER BORE THE. SURNAME OF "JoAQUI N ,,,
(AREFUL HISTORIANS., CORRELAT NG REPORTS, CAN PRODUCE AT LEAST
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FIVE SEPARATE 'J0Aauf Ns -CAR LLO, Bon1uER, VALENZUELO, OcoMORENO
AND MURI ETA-ALL ACTIVE AT THE SAME TIME! THE AGGREGATE
FANCY OF WR TERS OF THE PER OD S REPRESENTED N REAMS OF
ROMANT\C AND USUALLY LEGENDARY PRESENTATIONS.

FORTUNATELY, THE EXPLOITS OF THE ONE-AND-ONLY Ti BURCIO
VASQUEZ CAN BE MORE F RMLY BASED ON AUTHENT C RECORDS-
HE WAS PER ODICALLY INVOLVED IN THE DUE PROCESS OF LAW.

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THOU6H SEQUENT\AL \H "TIME, THE LIVES OF JoAQU N MURIETA,
(ONE A~D ALL) A HD OF VASQUEZ, WERE MARKED BY 5 l MILAR\1\ES,
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B01H IN SKILLS OF THE TRADEllAND \N GEOGRAPH C PATTERN. THEY
WERE STAGE ROBBERS., HORSE THIEVES AND KILLERS. THEY WERE
EARLY-(ALIFORN A GANGSTERS ON HORSEBACK AND 8'<' MANY

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