Make This: John Rollin Ridge's "The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murrieta: The Celebrated California Bandit"

Not much is known about the origins of Zorro except that a portion of his legend involves the life story of "The Robin Hood of the West," Joaquín Murrieta. Historian Susan Lee does attest to the actual facts of Murrieta's life that he was "drove [...] from a rich mining claim, [...] his wife was raped, his half-brother lynched, and Murrieta himself horse-whipped. He may have worked as a monte dealer for a time; then, according to whichever version one accepts, he became either a horse trader and occasional horse thief, or a bandit." A year after Murrieta's death in 1853, Yellow Bird's The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murrieta: The Celebrated California Bandit was published and considered his biography according to many historians at the time. Most of the facts were expanded on. Murrieta would murder the white men who raped his wife and hung his brother, expanding on his friendships with the banditti he creates out of vengeance.

Diego Luna as Joaquín Murrieta

Sam Elliott as Captain Harry Love

Gael Garcia Bernal as Reyes Feliz