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About John Rollin Ridge
John Rollin Ridge, 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.
Everything about John Rollin Ridge →- Occupation
- novelist, editor, journalist, writer
- Citizenship
- United States, Cherokee Nation
- Born
- March 19, 1827
- Died
- October 5, 1867