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Joaquin Murrieta Life And Accomplishments

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Joaquin Murrieta was born in 1830 in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico, or Quillota, Chile. Murrieta became somewhat of a legend. If he was an actual person or if he was just fiction to Mexican history is unknown. The legendary Murrieta, in Mexican history, was the “bandit” in a band called “The Five Joaquins”. It's said that he and others raided Sacramento valley; robbing gold miners and participated in violent murders and raids between the 1850s-1860s. It is said him and his band stole horses, attacked settlers that were in wagon trains up and down California. A reward was set to California rangers for the capture of Murrieta and his men. Rangers thought they came across Murrieta and his men, that they killed 3 Mexican men, and cut off their heads and

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