Murder In the Gold Country: Hacalitas Gang's Raid on Rancheria

This wildly entertaining, book is very well researched, and a must-read for the lover of non-fiction history. Never before has a book been written about one of the most significant events that happened during the California Gold Rush era: the raid on Rancheria Gold Camp. The Mexican vaqueros of the Ione and Jackson Valley ranches had enough of being treated like dogs by the Anglo miners. They would get their revenge! This was an era of the wildest of the Wild West. In those times, a man would be hung for stealing a mule. What would the miners do to someone that shot and killed their camp mother, in the back, as she was lowering her baby out a window to save it from the Mexican raiders? The retaliation was more horrific than the raid! The chase of the real bad guys include some of the best lawmen the Old West produced, three gun fights, and one better than the OK Corral of Tombstone. There exists two scenes, that if made into a movie, would never be forgotten as long as that movie-goer lives. All that and every bit really happened. This is a true story you will never forget!