Tres Dedos, the most notorious of Murrieta’s associates, by all accounts a butcher, was a ‘gang’ leader in his own right. Born in the same town as Murrieta, according to Latta, in the same house, joined at the hip, but of completely different character, Dedos was Murrieta’s shadow. Alias, Three Fingered Jack, he rustled horses from the Tulare Lake region, adding them to the drove at Cantua where they were corralled, branded and made ready for the drive south. At Cantua, stolen stock were often mixed with wild mustang and marked with Murrieta’s distinct Las Tres Piedras brand. The image here looks west, into the badlands of the Diablo Range, north of Pacheco Pass.