
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)
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