The Californios
Born in 1908, Louis L'Amour was to become on of the most prolificstoryteller of the 20th century. His narrative style, easy to understand,as if actually telling the story, as well as his captivating stories of thewest and the frontier days and ability to relate fiction with personalexperience, made him a beloved writer. The Californios is no exception. The story in itself is quotesimple: in order to pay a debt and save their ranch, the Mulkerin Brothersneed to find a treasure. With the help o
In search of the treasure, the Mulkin brothers face this dangerevery moment and their journey is somewhat symbolical: a quest for a hardto obtain goal (the treasure) can only follow through a scenario filledwith action and goals. Their sense of adventuretakes an upper hand on the actual mission of finding gold. f an Indian mystic, they searchCalifornia high and low to find it, but come in conflict with a band ofdangerous gunfighters from Baja. Nothing comes easy, everything must be fought for and is hardto obtain. The book is a mean for L'Amour to present some of his mysticalconceptions through the voice of the Indian mystic. It fits appropriatelyin the story and is better associated with it, because we would ratherexpect adventurous and mystery actions to be thus explained. Christianityprovides more of a 'city' religion, but on the frontier, fighting bad guysand searching treasures- well, mysticism seems a better choice here. Now, we should remember that in 1844,nobody really thought about searching gold in California, so, in many ways,the Mulkerin Brothers are truly temerarious. "- this could possibly be the center of the author'sphilosophy. It is a somewhat classical theme, which has beencopied into the adventure movies of the 20th century as well. The action of the novel is really only a pretext for L'Amour toreveal some of his ideas on life, through the voice of some of hischaracters.
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