Question
A legendary outlaw from this state had his anti-American exploits popularized in a novel by the Cherokee author John Rollin Ridge. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this home state of the “Mexican Robin Hood,” Joaquin Murrieta. Frank Norris’s The Octopus fictionalizes a battle in this state against the Southern Pacific Railroad.
ANSWER: California [or CA]
[10h] This author depicted a battle for California land grants after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in her novel The Squatter and the Don. This Mexican-American author also wrote the novel Who Would Have Thought It?
ANSWER: María Ruiz de Burton [or María Amparo Ruiz de Burton; or María Amparo Maytorena Ruiz; prompt on de Burton or Maytorena]
[10m] This author’s social novel Ramona helped spread the benevolent “Mission Myth” about Spanish mission culture in California. A lecture in Boston by Standing Bear inspired this author’s most famous nonfiction book.
ANSWER: Helen Hunt Jackson (The latter book is A Century of Dishonor.)
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Summary
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Data
| Berkeley B | Stanford | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Free Agents | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |