The Curse of Capistrano

The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 story by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the fictional Californiocharacter Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox). It would be later published as a novella in 1924 under the title The Mark of Zorro.



Contents
[hide]  *1 Publication history  ==Publication history[ edit] == Before being published in novella form, The Curse of Capistrano appeared as five serialized installments in the pulp magazine All-Story Weekly.[1]
 * 2 Setting
 * 3 See also
 * 4 Notes
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links

After the enormous success of the 1920 film adaptation, The Mark of Zorro, the story was republished under that name byGrosset & Dunlap. ==Setting[ edit] == The book tells of the story of Californio Don Diego Vega—Zorro in the company of his deaf and mute servant Bernardo and his lover Lolita Pulido, as they rival the antagonists Captain Ramon and Sgt. Gonzales in early 19th-century California, before it became a U.S. state (see Alta California). It is set amongst the historic Spanish missions in California, pueblos (towns) such as San Juan Capistrano, California, and the rural California countryside.