What San Jose got was not a two-story-tall bronze, but a squat, coiled snake of cast stone — 8 feet tall including its non-walk-insidable base — that bears a marked resemblance to a massive ...

The other one came about 200 years later. Joaquín Murrieta was a Californio who supposedly fought against American colonizers arriving during the Gold Rush, after the U.S. invasion of Mexico.