Libros de Ireneo Paz (2 libros)

Nacido en 1836, Ireneo Paz fue contemporaneo de Porfirio Diaz, Ignacio M. Altamirano, Vicente Riva Palacio y Juan A. Mateos, entre otros. Abogado, militar, periodista, literato y politico, Paz destaco tambien como divulgador de la historia nacional. En Algunas campanas, que son sus memorias de juventud, relata en forma historica-novelesca la intervencion francesa y el Imperio de Maximiliano. En este primer tomo narra la intervencion francesa en los estados de Occidente.

Here is the dime-novelesque biography of the most infamous bandit in the history of the West, for decades a source of fear and legend in the newly founded state of California. To both Mexicans and Indians, Murrieta became a symbol of resistance to the displacement and oppression visited on them in the wake of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), particularly by the ñForty-Ninersî who flooded into the region during the California gold rush. In his introduction, literary critic Luis Leal has researched and written the first definitive history of the Murrieta legend in its various...