J.M. Inspires Well-Loved Hero - Zorro
Joaquin Murrieta embarked on a mission to hunt down and eliminate his brother's killers, systematically avenging their deaths. Along the way, he recruited gang members to protect the Mexican community. One of his accomplices, "Three-fingered Jack," a war veteran who had lost two fingers during the Mexican-American war, joined their cause. Together, they targeted American miners and purportedly shared their spoils with the local Mexican community.
Joaquin soon gained notoriety as a feared gang leader, prompting a bounty to be placed on his head. This led the author Johnston McCulley to immortalize him as the legendary hero Zorro in his book "The Curse of the Capistrano."
