The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

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The first novel by a Native person, and the first novel written in California, was written in 1854, by a Cherokee guy named John Rollin Ridge. The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta was based on a supposed real‐life Mexican bandit from California by the same name, who was killed by a group of Texas Rangers in 1853.