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Gonzales in early 19thcentury california during the era of. Generally, those old adventure classics are pretty great the prisoner of zenda is fantastic, as is captain blood. I, myself, read the mark of zorro more than two decades ago, when i was a child and the copy i read was titled the curse of capistrano. Zorro debuted in johnston mcculleys 1919 story the curse of capistrano, serialized in five parts in the pulp magazine allstory weekly.
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