Author: RIDGE, JOHN ROLLIN & YELLOW BIRD (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOSEPH HENRY JACKSON)
Title: Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta Celebrated California Bandit
Description: Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. Trade Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0806114290. This is a smaller than trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing and wear and there is a crease to the top front corner. The text pages are clean and bright. "John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee name: Cheesquatalawny, or Yellow Bird, March 19, 1827 – October 5, 1867) , a member of the Cherokee Nation, is considered the first Native American novelist. After moving to California in 1850, he began to write. He is known for his novel The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit (1854) , based on a notorious outlaw of the period. His father John Ridge had been assassinated in 1839 in Indian Territory, after removal, by Cherokee who condemned his having signed a treaty to cede communal land to the United States. Ridge was taken by his mother to Fayetteville, Arkansas, for safety. He later attended school in Massachusetts. After returning to Arkansas, he read the law, set up a practice and married. In 1850 he went West in the California Gold Rush, where his wife and daughter later joined him. There he started writing – both poetry and essays. In his novel and other works, he criticized American racism toward Mexicans, several years after the war by which the United States acquired California and much of the Southwest. After the American Civil War, he was among the Cherokee delegation that negotiated a new treaty for peace with the United States. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .
Keywords: 0806114290 Californiana John Rollin Ridge Yellow Bird Joseph Henry Jackson California History California Bandits
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Title: Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta Celebrated California Bandit
Description: Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. Trade Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0806114290. This is a smaller than trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing and wear and there is a crease to the top front corner. The text pages are clean and bright. "John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee name: Cheesquatalawny, or Yellow Bird, March 19, 1827 – October 5, 1867) , a member of the Cherokee Nation, is considered the first Native American novelist. After moving to California in 1850, he began to write. He is known for his novel The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit (1854) , based on a notorious outlaw of the period. His father John Ridge had been assassinated in 1839 in Indian Territory, after removal, by Cherokee who condemned his having signed a treaty to cede communal land to the United States. Ridge was taken by his mother to Fayetteville, Arkansas, for safety. He later attended school in Massachusetts. After returning to Arkansas, he read the law, set up a practice and married. In 1850 he went West in the California Gold Rush, where his wife and daughter later joined him. There he started writing – both poetry and essays. In his novel and other works, he criticized American racism toward Mexicans, several years after the war by which the United States acquired California and much of the Southwest. After the American Civil War, he was among the Cherokee delegation that negotiated a new treaty for peace with the United States. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .
Keywords: 0806114290 Californiana John Rollin Ridge Yellow Bird Joseph Henry Jackson California History California Bandits
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 47671
- Book number: 47671
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