Table of Contents -- Introduction -- The Pastoral Myth -- Gold Fever -- Social Bandits? -- Antecedents -- When the Name Joaquin Came to Mean -- FROM CALAVERAS [ Per Brown's Express] -- Principal Sources for the Study of JoaquÃn Murrieta -- First Reliable Identification -- From Sonora to California -- The Metamorphosis -- The First Adventure -- The Pursuit -- The Death of Joaquin -- John Rollin Ridge and His Work -- Ridge's Work Plagiarized -- The Translations -- Ireneo Paz -- Preliminaries -- The Head of Joaquin and the Hand of Jack -- Murrieta: Mexican or Chilean? -- Ridge Viewed as Fiction -- Imitators and Embellishers -- Walter Noble Burns -- Adolfo Carrillo -- The Nineteenth Century: Miller and Stewart -- The Twentieth Century: Gonzales and Elizondo -- In Nineteenth-CenturyTheater -- Twentieth-Century Theater: The Chilean Perspective -- In Film.