(CRIME) Signed carte de visite of famous California outlaw T

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(CRIME.) Signed carte-de-visite of famous California outlaw Tiburcio Vásquez. Albumen photograph, 3 3/4 x 2 inches, on original card mount, signed "Tiburcio Vasquez, Precente" on verso below the photographer's imprint; no substantial condition issues. San Jose, CA: Wright's Art and Portrait Gallery, [1875]

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Tiburcio Vásquez (1835-1875) spent his entire life in California, with much of it devoted to cattle-rustling and armed robberies. He started to gain national fame in 1873, when his gang killed three bystanders in a store, and was captured in May of the following year. He presented himself as a champion of Mexican-American rights in the increasingly Anglo-American world of California. During his final months in prison, he sold photographs to his visitors from his window, until he went to the gallows on 17 March 1875.