Joaquin Murieta Research Paper

Newspaper were the original form of literature within California and California first newspaper, “Californian” was a weekly newspaper that appeared in Monterey on August 15th, 1846. Walter Colten and Robert Semple formed a partnership to publish the newspaper and a found an old printing press and Agustin V. Zamorano imported the printing press to Monterey from Boston. “Californian” weekly newspaper was written in English and Spanish and continued to be published in The Monterey until May 1847. California gold rush expanded journalism in San Francisco, 132 periodicals were first established in the bay area, region that employed over 1000 people that were proprietors, editors, and reporters. The periodicals were written in 6 different languages, …show more content…
Clapp wrote 23 letters to her sister about her struggles of living in mining camps as the only women with her husband. “The Pioneer” was a literary monthly that published “The Shirley Letters” in 1854 and used the pen name “Dame Shirley.” At 12, Ridge watched a group of Cherokees murder his father. Almost 10 years later, Ridge migrated to San Francisco gold-rush and wrote poems under the pen name Yellow Bird but it wasn’t until “The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, Celebrated California Bandit” Ridge would reach success. Joaquin Murieta was the greatest California legend and would carry out his revenge with a knife, Mureita may have “avenged himself against the murders of his father. “ (pg. 161) Francis Bret Harte was a well-known poet that migrated to California in 1854 and would eventually become the first editor for “The Overland Monthly. “ Harte would meet and work with Mark Twain and Ina Coolbirth while living in San Francisco. Samuel L. Clemens or better known as Mark Twain was the greatest American literacy writer of the west. Twain moved to San Francisco in 1864 and met Harte and started to sketch for the “Era. “Roughing it”, an autobiographical narrative of Twain experience in the west. Ina Cool birth was an early poet born Josephine Smith and migrated to San Francisco after her marriage ended in 1865. Coolbirth would met Harte and …show more content…
In the mid-1950s, the beat generation was a group of cultural libertinism from San Francisco that gained attention from New York writers. The beat generation gained notoriety in 1956 with the publication of Jack Kerwac “on the road” which was a formless novel and Allen Ginsberg, “Howl and Other Poems.” The 1960s in California emerged a new generation of contemporary American literary writers. The California writers focused on the literary style and “concerns of the beat generation, but also reflected their own time period.” (pg. 419) Joan Didion was a novelist-essayist and “Run River” was her first novel published in 1963 which “focused on these sense of loss and decline of a certain pride.” Gerald Haslam distinguished his California roots which showcased in his writings, he wrote about oil rig workers, Mexican Labors, and poor white farmers. A new generation of California writers were emerging during the contemporary literature such as several African American, Native American, Latino, and Asian American Darryl Babe Wilson was a Native American writer that “explored the lives of the native California, seeking knowledge of tradition culture and the contemporary society.” (pg. 422) Lusi Valdez was a Mexican American literature writer that was a playwright and director. Valdez founded El Teatro Campesino, which “combined ancient myths, bilingual dialogue and a concern