He was the bandit scourge of early California, one of the most enigmatic figures in American history, a man whose name alone once sent tremors through the gold fields of the Sierra Nevada and beyond.

Starting Friday morning at the Charros Unidos facility on Avenue 17 just north of Madera, a group of horse riders will assemble and begin a three-day, 60-mile journey in honor of Joaquín Murrieta. The ...

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On July 25, 1853, a group of California Rangers met a band of armed Mexicans near Coalinga, in central-California gold-mining country. In the ensuing skirmish, three Mexicans died. One corpse in ...

To many he was a hero. Others saw him as an outlaw. He has been the subject of plays, novels, poems — even movies. Drawings show him as an intense, romantic figure riding a spirited horse in his fight ...

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Of all the abductions, this one is different.