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I, Joaquín

By: Melvin Litton
Narrated by: Rich Miller
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"Melvin Litton takes us to the landscape of the soul where history and myth meet." (Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown: The Last Discovery of America)

Before Jesse James or Billy the Kid, there was Joaquín Murrieta - lover, bandit, revolutionary. On July 25, 1853, a troop of California Rangers killed and beheaded the young bandit. It was believed his army numbered in the hundreds and that he planned to sweep the country south to Sonora. Thinking the matter ended, the Rangers preserved his head in a bucket of whiskey and rode to Sacramento to collect their reward. Yet with his death, his fame only grew, along with rumors of his ghost in haunt of the Rangers.

At once a breath and echo of the legend, a soul's jornada, I, Joaquín reveals the bandit's voice, his reflections on his life and death, his love and vengeance, and the lone purgatory from which he speaks. Listen as he tells of his birth in a small village along the Magdalena. Of his youthful quest for mustangs through the Sierra Madres, of his love for Rosita, and the horrid day that sets him on the path to war. Listen as he confesses his murders and mistresses, his head encased in a jar of aguardiente de cabeza, his voice present therein. Listen...for Joaquín has a tale.

©2016 Melvin Litton (P)2018 David N. Wilson
Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Haunted Old West Wild West

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