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SCOURGE OF
MILITARY TYRANTS...
GALLANT DEFENDER
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Don Diego de la Vega, a man of

letters and a man of arms. By day—
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secure in his books and poetry
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fearful of the sword. By night an
avenger, riding masked and cloaked
as ZORRO the FOX.
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This is a sort of believe-it-or-not story, and

the hombres who are sure not to believe it are
the range riders of Texas and the bronco-
CKJE busters of Wyoming. But history proves it...
United States were
the first cowboys in these
the cowboys of California.
Along with Portola and Father Serra on
their march from Mexico came a handful of
vaqueros to tend the livestock. Before long,
the missions rose along the route of their
tramping feet, and the Indians came to them
to pray, to work . . . and to ride the horses
which the law prohibited them from owning.
Soon, they were not only riding, but doing
all the jobs a cowpoke does broncobusting, . .

roping, branding. Thus, the first Americans

were also the first American cowboys.
An important part of the costume of these
first cowboys was their hat low-crowned, . . .

flat-brimmed, and black in color, worn over

a kerchief tied at the back of the head. When
the elegant CALIFORNIOS came to the land
of the missions a few years later, bringing
with them a more gracious way of life and
the splendid dress and fancy trappings to
go with it, they adapted the low-crowned,
wide-brimmed hat to suit their more elegant
tastes.
Don Diego de la Vega was a true Cali-
fornio, but, as Zorro, he wore the black hat
and kerchief of the first vaqueros.
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Zorrcfc
Trail OLVERA
in
STREET— a block-long bit of early California
modern Los Angeles, Here stand old adobes which might
well have vibrated to the clatter of Tornado's hoofs as he
carried Zorro through the black night to avenge a wrong.

The colorful AVILA ADOBE, tfuilt by one At the ZANJA MADRE, or mother ditch,
of its first mayors, is the. oldest home in it wag not unusual to see humans and
Los Angeles and still ^htains much of the animals drinking together while colorfully
original furnishings and bric-a-brac. dresseji senoras did the family wash.

At the gay festival of LOS FOSADGS; the Towering steel and concrete skyscrapers
children gather with sticks and poles to surround the thick-walled adobes now, but
break ,the pinata and send a shower of the strum of guitars and the clink of casta-
sweets onto the street for all to grab. nets are still part of OLVERA STREET.