Back before the internet, there was this thing called a newspaper. Iron Davy Cole this morning was perusing the archives of one such enterprise, The New York Times, when he came across this stirring account of the life and death of one Jose Alvarado, a piratical mercenary who spent his final hours at Mission Dolores in 1875.
To read the the whole worthy-of-a-Warren-Zevon-song tale, see Cole’s post, “Come for the epic war stories, stay for the last sentence”.
(NOTE: Maybe if its editorial staff had had the presence of mind to refer to the characters in last week’s graffiti spree as “a lawless gang of freebooters,” the San Francisco Chronicle would still be around today.)
