![]() But the Scarlet Pimpernel fought for the aristocracy, while Zorro fought against the aristocracy on behalf of the common man he was an outlaw and almost certainly was modeled, at least in part, on the legendary California bandit Joaquin Murieta, whose head supposedly was preserved in a jar for more than half a century until it vanished in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. No one is sure exactly who inspired the character Zorro, though the Baroness Emmuska Orezy's Scarlet Pimpernel, the masked Englishman who battled French revolutionary fanatics, was a likely candidate. McCulley moved to Southern California in 1908 and picked up something of the color and lore of the provincial times, though nothing at all of its history. ![]() ![]() ![]() The character of Zorro - "fox" in Spanish - originated not in Mexico or Spain but in the mind of a New York journalist and pulp writer named Johnston McCulley. ![]()
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