Captain Harrison Love (1813 - 1841) was an American US Cavalry captain in the early 19th Century.
Biography[]
Harrison Love was born in Ohio in 1813 son of an Anglo-Irish family. In 1836, he joined the US Army and foiught in the Mexican-American War.
In 1841, served as Don Rafael Montero's right-hand man. Captain Love killed Alejandro Murrieta's brother and took his head for his "drink". After this, he joined Don Rafael as the don arrived in California. Together they planned to buy California on the gold mined from its own land in their gold mine. However, Alejandro, seeking revenge, met Zorro, Diego de la Vega, whose main enemy was Don Rafael, as the don had stole his daughter, Elena when she was a baby. Diego trained Alejandro to be his replacement, and together they planned to have revenge on Love and Montero, and to find out what their evil plan was.
When the two Zorros, after many weeks of training and spying, discovered the gold mine, Love told Montero that, as they already had mined all the gold to buy California, they shall need to blow up the mine with the miners, as the mine and the workers would be evidence that they had bought California on it's own gold. So Love and Montero prepared to blow up the mine with many barrels of gunpowder, but suddenly the two Zorros appeared and attacked the evil pair. Love fought with Alejandro, but his enemy eventually overcame him, revealed his identity, and finally impaled Love with his sword. As the dying captain fell to the ground, the huge cart of gold, pushed down from a higher level of the mine by Diego and dragged Montero by a leg, fell over the higher level's edge and onto a screaming Love, crushing and gruesomely killing the evil captain.