Bandits, Captives, Heroines, and SaintsBandits, Captives, Heroines, and Saints investigates cultural icons of the late nineteenth century from Mexicos largely unstudied northwest borderlands, present day Sonora, Baja California, and western Chihuahua. Robert McKee Irwin looks at popular figures such as Joaqun Murrieta, the gold rush social bandit; Lola Casanova, the anti Malinche, whose marriage to a Seri Indian symbolized a forbidden form of mestizaje; and la Santa de Cabora, a young