The Bandolero

The Bandolero: La Puebla de los Angeles is peculiar, even among the cities of modern Mexico; peculiar in the fact, that two-thirds of its population are composed of priests, pelados, poblanas, pickpockets, and incarones of a bolder type. Perhaps I have been too liberal in allowing a third to the "gente de bueno," or respectable people. There are travelers who have altogether denied their existence; but this may be an exaggeration on the other side.

Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 October 22, 1883) was a Scots-Irish American novelist. He fought in the American-Mexican War. His many works are about American life, in which he describes the colonial policy in the United States, the horrors of slave labor, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes place primarily in places including, but not limited to: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica.

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