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Search - Joaquin - The Claude Duval Of California, Or, The Marauder Of The Mines - A Romance Founded On Truth

Joaquin The Claude Duval Of California Or The Marauder Of The Mines A Romance Founded On Truth
Author: Henry Llewellyn Williams

Few still living of those who can yet recall the feats of the man mhoss name gives title to this book. Joaquin Murietta was the son of worthy parents, and notliing in his early youlh betokened any traits of the mouster n7hicll he aftertvards beca ne. IIe left Sonora, the lovely coyntry of his birth, and visited the provinco of AIeuico, where hc ... more »became attached to the 1iouseIiold of the then fa111o. u S anta Anna. Q iarrellinw it 11 one of the attaches, lie openly insulted llim but the man lie insulted did not resent it, and 1 Joaqnin scornfully rode amy, to soon after rs-appear in his native toivn. IIere Ire married a young Souorian, Carmela Felix. A yesr of tranquil happiness 11ad barely passed . before he was summoned by his brother, to visit him at the i Iission of S I I Jose, in California. He went, accompanied by his wife. Carlos, the brotller, mas rejoiced to have Joaquin with I inl. Together they proceeded upon some business to the miueu. IIere a friend of theirs, Flores, was found in l, ossession of a no e alleged to l aveb een stolen. Carlos vras with Flores at the time of his arrest an11 the first thing that Jonqnin knew of the arrest of his brother was seeing tlie two friends hanging from a tree-dead From that moment Joaquins nature and disposition underrverrt a fearful change. Still, l owever, at the entreaties of his wife, Joaquin resumed worlc as a miner. 011 one occasion a set of rufians t, ried to drive him from the clai n on which he as at rorlc. Joaqnin resisted. Pistols flashed, Joaquin fell, wounded aud senseless. When he awoke to reason, it was td find Carmela, worse than dead, beside him. From t11is moment tlie fires of perdition appeared to blazd in his heart. From crilne to crime 11e passed on with furious rage, until there was Iiardly a town in California that couldnt show the victilns of his fatal bullet or , the smouldering ruins caused by his torch. In the fol owing pages every trace of his blood-stained footsteps is closely follomed. Some of tl efa cts are furnished by cotemporary witnesses most of them by official documents. IIe l roceeded from step to step, wading deeper and deeper into crime, until quiet citizens were almost afraid to breathe his name aloud. Nor was 11e alone in his nefarious exploits. His infamous notoriety surrounded him with a band of satellites only infcrior to l in selinf his bad emi lence. Resolute menlvent-sometimes in parties, sometimes singly-to waylay and capture Ilinl. Very few, however, returned to say anything of llis wl ereabonts. 111 some solitary gu ley the daring nien would be found, n7it1i some token or other left to signify tllat they had met their death at the bands of Joaquin or some of his lreartless lieutenants. So great at length became the terror inspired by his rutl lessd eeds, and fright so nmgnified tl enlt hat hundreds swore that there was not one Joaquin-but a dozen at tlle least. Sheriffs of counties hunted llim with picked men. The Governor of the State offered rast rewards for his capture, dead or alive. Eventnally he fell into the hands of a brare American, Captain Love, who secured him in the jail at hlartinez, from whicll he was taken by force, and hung by a number of hlexicans. He was decapitated, and his head p ibliclye xhibited in San Francisco. In addition to this bein a faithful narration of the fearful deeds of Joaquin, incidentally the n. ol l gives a faithfnl delineation of life in the diggings in the early dayY of California, when almost every nugget...

ISBN-13: 9781408635063
ISBN-10: 1408635062
Publication Date: 1/31/2008
Pages: 162
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