Samuel W. Bishop account of California Rangers killing of Joaquin Murrieta and Three Fingered Jack, 1888.

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Samuel W. Bishop account of California Rangers killing of Joaquin Murrieta and Three Fingered Jack, 1888.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122276143

Contains incomplete manuscript of Bishop's first hand account of California Rangers' killing of outlaws Joaquin Murieta and Three Fingered Jack (Manuel Garcia), in the Spring of 1853, as told to historian Ada B. Phillips at San Jose in 1888. Incomplete manuscript appears in Frank Latta's, Joaquin Murrieta and His Horse Gangs.

4 p.

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California Rangers (Organization).

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García, Manuel, d. 1853.

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Murieta, Joaquín, -1853

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Bishop, Samuel

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Samuel W. Bishop was superintendent of the Kings River Indian Reservation. Joaquin Murieta, an infamous bandit to some, a Mexican patriot to others, was thought to be the head of a gang responsible for the majority of the crime in the Sierra Nevadas from 1850 to 1853. From the description of Samuel W. Bishop account of California Rangers killing of Joaquin Murrieta and Three Fingered Jack, 1888. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 122276...

Phillips, Ada B.

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