John Rollin Ridge (1827–1867)
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By John Rollin Ridge - Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: Celebrated California Bandit (New edition) 1 eksemplar
La Ballade de Joaquin Murieta, bandit mexicain 1 eksemplar
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The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 255 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Ridge, John Rollin
- Juridisk navn
- Ridge, John Rollin
- Andre navne
- Yellow Bird
Cheesquatalawny - Fødselsdato
- 1827-03-19
- Dødsdag
- 1867-11-05
- Begravelsessted
- Greenwood Memorial Park, Grass Valley, California, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Cherokee Nation
- Fødested
- Running Waters, Cherokee Nation
- Dødssted
- Grass Valley, California, USA
- Dødsårsag
- encephalitis
- Bopæl
- Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA
Sacramento, California, USA
Grass Valley, California, USA - Uddannelse
- Great Barrington School
- Erhverv
- journalist
editor
novelist - Relationer
- Wilson, Elizabeth (spouse)
- Organisationer
- Sacramento Bee
San Francisco Herald - Kort biografi
- Cherokee journalist, poet, and novelist John Rollin Ridge (Chees-quat-a-law-ny, or Yellow Bird) was born on March 19, 1827, the Cherokee Nation, in present Georgia. He was the son of John and Sarah Ridge. His grandfather, Major Ridge, an influential Cherokee leader, together with Ridge's father and other family members, signed the 1835 New Echota treaty. This agreement sold Cherokee land in the East for land in what is now Oklahoma, a move that was seen by some Cherokees as the cause of the Trail of Tears. In accordance with the treaty, the Ridge family relocated to the Honey Creek area of the Cherokee Nation, near the present Oklahoma-Missouri border. When Ridge was twelve, assassins from a Cherokee party opposed to the signing of the New Echota treaty stabbed his father to death in front of his family. Fearing for their safety, the family moved to Arkansas.
Ridge was educated in Arkansas and later in Massachusetts, after which he returned to manage a farm on the family's Honey Creek settlement. In 1847 he married an Arkansas woman named Elizabeth Wilson. Violence again entered Ridge's life in 1849 when, during an argument over a horse, he killed a man loyal to the faction that had killed his father. Certain that he would not receive a fair trial, Ridge fled to California.
After an unsuccessful attempt at gold mining, he found employment writing for various California newspapers. In 1854 he published the first novel written by an American Indian, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Due to pirated editions Ridge's novel, though widely read, was not financially successful. After the Civil War he helped establish the peace treaty between the Southern Cherokee Nation and the United States. Ridge died in Grass Valley, California, on October 5, 1867.
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This book takes place in the 1850's, in California. Joaquin gets whipped for stealing a horse he didn't steal, and the same mob that did that, killed his half brother. Well, he decides then and there to get revenge on that mob, and on all white Americans, or "Yankees", and forms a band of outlaws, or banditti, to do so! Most colorful of those fellows, besides Murieta, is Three Fingered Jack, but all the banditti are ruthless robbers and killers.
This book is ok, in that it has historical relevance and has some decent, if bloody, action. What I didn't like is that it is all one big long piece, no chapter breaks or anything. It sort of reads like a person talking too fast! Even if they just divided the story up at date/season changes, it would have read better, for me. But if you like westerns, and robbers, you'll probably like this!… (mere)