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On May 17, 1853, California governor John Bigler signed a bill into law to deal with an increase in lawlessness caused by Mexican bandits throughout the new American state.  The law stated that the war veteran Captain Harry Love, would assemble a team of no more than 20 men to be called the California Rangers to be paid $150 a month for no more than 3 months, to “capture, drive out of the country, or exterminate the desperate bands of highwaymen who placed in continual jeopardy both life and property.”  The law was written with one specific person in mind, a notorious Mexican bandit named Joaquín Murrieta who had terrorized the California countryside since the first years of the gold rush.  Many bounties had been placed on Murrieta’s head by various individuals and elements of law enforcement, but this 1853 law passed at a state level was serious business. Joaquín Murrieta was the stuff of legend, both during a

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