The real Joaquin Murieta: Robin Hood hero or Gold Rush gangster?

First Edition, MCMLXXIV (1974), first printing, an unread, unopened, unmarked hardcover with a slight spine slant, also a barely visible transparent prior owner seal in the lower right corner of the first page, also three small ink figures (B81) in the upper left corner of the first page, without a dust jacket, from Trans-Anglo Books. By Remi Nadeau, previously author of six other works of history. ISBN 0-87046-027-7. 160 pages including an index. Illustrated. Also, included is a news story from the San Francisco Chronicle dated Aug.8, 1980, titled The Pickled Head Puzzle by Don Wagars about a man in Santa Rosa who owns a pickled head of Joaquin Murieta, he believes.