Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
The rocks north of Los Angeles carry his name because the bandit Tiburcio Vasquez used their tilted slabs as a hideout until his capture in 1874. He robbed stages and stores for twenty years, was hanged at San Jose in 1875, and the lore has always held that some of what he took is still cached in the rocks he knew best.
Vasquez Rocks, Agua Dulce (Los Angeles County). Source: Los Angeles County history; the man and the hideout are documented, the caches are lore. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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