He was the bandit scourge of early California, one of the most enigmatic figures in American history, a man whose name alone once sent tremors through the gold fields of the Sierra Nevada and beyond.

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Western author and historian John Boessenecker has produced an instant classic with his new book “Bring Me The Head of Joaquin Murrieta.” While his subject ...

To many he was a hero. Others saw him as an outlaw. He has been the subject of plays, novels, poems — even movies. Drawings show him as an intense, romantic figure riding a spirited horse in his fight ...