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Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (sometimes misspelled Murieta or Murietta) (c. 1829 – July 25, 1853), also called the Robin Hood of the West or the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was a Mexican figure of disputed historicity.
The place was at Murrieta Spring a spring flowing from the south bank of the Cantúa forming a pool in the arroyo where it emerged from the foot of the western mountains, a mile above where California State Route 33 now crosses Cantua Creek. The spring was located about 100 yards above where the El Camino Viejo crossed the arroyo.
The California Rangers were paid $150 a month and stood a chance to share a $5000 reward for the capture of Joaquin Murrieta. [ 1 ] On July 25, 1853, a group of Rangers, led by Captain Love, encountered a band of armed Mexican men near Panoche Pass in San Benito County , 50 miles from Monterey .
Murrieta Spring is a historic spring flowing from the south bank of Cantua Creek, about 100 yards above where El Camino Viejo crossed the Creek in the San Joaquin Valley. The Spring formed a pool in the arroyo where it emerged from the foot of the eastern mountains of the Diablo Range , a mile above where formerly California State Route 33 ...
That creek originally, Arroyo de Cantua, was a stopping place on the El Camino Viejo. The hideout of Joaquin Murrieta was located in the vicinity of this creek in the mountains to the west of this community. The Cantua post office operated in 1888, and from 1890 to 1892. [6] The Cantua Creek post office opened in 1941. [6]
The rocks were named for Joaquin Murrieta (1830-1853), a Sonoran 49'er turned bandit during the California Gold Rush after his death at the hands of the California Rangers in the Arroyo de Cantua. He and his gang used this region as a base and a refuge for their business of horse theft and robbery. [ 1 ]
Murrieta Rocks was a station on La Vereda del Monte ("The Mountain Trail") used by mesteñeros and horse thieves, most notably the horse gang of Joaquin Murrieta. It was used as a watering place, a place to hold a supply of relief saddle horses, and occasionally captured mustangs to add to the drove of horses on the route to the south.
John Rollin Ridge was born in the Cherokee Nation in New Echota in 1827 (now Georgia).He was given the Cherokee name Chees-quat-a-law-ny, or Yellow Bird. His father Major Ridge and grandfather were assassinated in 1839 after Indian Removal, for having ceded communal lands by the Treaty of Echota in 1825.