John Rollin Ridge

John Rollin Ridge was born in 1827 in Georgia, in the Cherokee nation; his father and grandfather had signed the treaty that ceded the nation's lands. He was twelve when Cherokees hostile to the treaty killed his father in front of him; his mother took him to Arkansas, he studied in Massachusetts, came back, and in 1849 killed a man of the opposing party. He made his way to California, failed there at gold, then lived by journalism: first editor of the Sacramento Bee, he later ran newspapers in Marysville, San Francisco and Grass Valley, where he died in 1867.

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• NovelThe Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California BanditJohn Rollin Ridge · 1854LiteraturePublic domain