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VASQU EZ ROCKS
Today this spot, rich in romance, is
famed for its natural beauty
It is
reached, as indicated on the map
after
a drive through one of the most scenic
California
The
Southern
of
portions
A
picturesque, swaggering
bandit
1
feared by the early
inhabitants of
mesa out of which the Vasquez rocks
Southern California- -stealing
killing,
rise is thickly
studded with
juniper
bushes and (
Lord's Candle
))
another
terrorizing -yet often seen in the role
of a Robin Hood
only to finish his
name for the Yucca
This area abounds
career at the end of a rope in
1875
in excellent picnic places
That is the graphic picture we have of
the notorious outlaw
Tiburcio
Vas
quez

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Often when capture threatened, he
would retreat to his stronghold among
the rocks three miles east of the Mint
Canyon
Highway
safe as if he had
vanished from the face of the earth
Tiburcio Vasquez was born in Mon
terey
County in
1837. Was trapped in
Here may still be seen the smoke
Greek George's
place in
Cahuenga
blackened
rocks
mute evidence of
hidden campfires around which the
Pass, was taken to San Jose, was tried
bandits gambled and drank, toasting
found
guilty and was hanged in 1875
their chief