The Life and Adventures of Joaqu? Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit - Paperback

by John Rollin Ridge (Author)

Not only was this the first book printed in California, but it was also the first published book to be written by a Native America. The story of Joaqu? Murieta would later be adapted as The Mask of Zorro. Certainly, aspects of the California Bandit would be used later as the foundation of comic book vigilantes, such as Batman