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John Rollin Ridge

(Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867)

John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee name: Cheesquatalawny, or Yellow Bird, March 19, 1827 – October 5, 1867), a member of the Cherokee Nation, is considered the first Native American novelist. After moving to California in 1850, he began to write. He is known for his novel The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit (1854), based on a notorious outlaw of the period. (From Wikipedia)

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Ridge's poems (Henry Payot & Company, publishers, 1868), by John Rollin Ridge, Estelle Doheny, Edward Bosqui & Company, and Henry Payot & Company (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by John Rollin Ridge:

Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867: The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (third edition; San Francisco: F. MacCrellish, 1874) (page images and uncorrected OCR text at Indiana)
Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867: Poems (San Francisco: H. Payot and Co., 1868)
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867: Poems (based on the 1868 edition, with added poems and notes) (HTML at ualrexhibits.org)

Additional books by John Rollin Ridge in the extended shelves:

Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867: Poems (H. Payot & Co., 1868), also by H. Payot & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Ridge, John Rollin, 1827-1867: Ridge's poems (Henry Payot & Company, publishers, 1868), also by Estelle Doheny, Edward Bosqui & Company, and Henry Payot & Company (page images at HathiTrust)

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