A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how diego de la vega became the masked man we all know so well born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, diego de la vega is a child of tw...A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how diego de la vega became the masked man we all know so well born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, diego de la vega is a child of two worlds. His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a shoshone warrior.