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Ramona: a story

 By Helen Hunt Jackson, Michael Dorris

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The absurdity and tragedy of prejudice is illustrated in this classic tale, set in Old California, of Ramona, a young Spanish-American orphan girl and her love for the Native American Alessandro. Reissue.

Limited preview - 2002 - 376 pages - Fiction


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Rancho Camulos Museum - The Ramona Story
When Helen Hunt Jackson published her best-selling novel Ramona in 1884, ... Ramona inspired four motion pictures and a pageant performed annually in Hemet, ...
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Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson - Full Text Free Book (Part 9/9)
beautiful dream for Ramona would be, that she should grow up in Mexico." ... Ramona gazed at him for one second, in surprise. Only for a ...
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Ramona memories: fiction, tourist practices, and placing the past ...
Though today it is mostly forgotten, scholars have long written of the impact of Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona, about how it saturated southern ...
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'Ramona Memories' by Didia delyser - New York Times
Southern California is a place formed by myths, perhaps even more than by earthquakes, and none more powerful apparently than Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 ...
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Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in ...
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Project Gutenberg Edition of Ramona
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Temecula - Page 228
"He came seldom to Temecula when I was there; but he is a friend of Indians. I know he came with the men from San Diego at the time when there was ...
more pages: xiii 50 77 122 151 179 197 202 203 239
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Page 370
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, reprinted in Jackson's Indian Letters, 337.
more pages: 369
San Bernardino - Page 303
again when we came down, or Jos could sell them for us in San Bernardino. Nobody could see Benito and Baba working together, and not want them. ...
more pages: 236 243 247 278 294 302 304 331 333 349
Monterey - Page 20
mentioned with public thanksgivings in the Mission churches, after some signal service he had rendered to the Fathers either in Mexico or Monterey. ...
more pages: 19 21 25 26 40 155 323 326 330 360
Santa Barbara - Page 26
and from that day he sank lower and lower, till one of the commonest sights to be seen in Santa Barbara was Angus Phail reeling about, tipsy, coarse, ...
more pages: 10 19 62 184 229 254 269 270 271 277
Ventura - Page 61
Three months, at least, the doctor, who had come from Ventura to set the leg, had said he must lie still in bed and be thus tended. ...
more pages: 10 70 104 202 271 276
San Diego - Page 228
I know he came with the men from San Diego at the time when there was fighting, and the whites were in great terror; and they said, except for Father ...
more pages: xiii 189 202 203 226 229 238 260 264 330
San Luis Obispo - Page 20
When they reached San Luis Obispo, the whole Indian population turned out to meet them, the Padre walking at the head. ...
more pages: 273 276
Los Angeles - Page 26
Finally Angus disappeared, and after a time the news came up from Los Angeles that he was there, had gone out to the San Gabriel Mission, ...
more pages: 52 66 155 176 191 257 258 259 278 372
Colorado Springs - Page 365
San Blas - Page 25
The Senorita Ramona Gonzaga sailed for Monterey the same day and hour her lover sailed for San Blas. They stood on the decks waving signals to each ...
more pages: 24
San Juan Capistrano - Page 325
It was late at night when Felipe reached San Juan Capistrano; but he could not sleep till he had seen this man. Here was the first clew he had gained. ...
San Francisco - Page 220
"Yes," she said, "a lot of San Francisco men; they belong to the company that's coming in here in the valley; they've been here two days. ...
more pages: 177 178 372 373
New York - Page 370
the plot had flashed through her mind in October, the first word of Ramona was not written until December 1, 1883, in her hotel room in New York City. ...
more pages: xi 373
Hemet, California - Page 372
Hartford, Connecticut - Page 363
2 HHJ to Warner, December 21, 1879, Charles Dudley Warner Collection, Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut; reprinted in Mathes, ...
La Jolla - Page 366
Denver - Page 366
Washington, DC - Page 373
Boston, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and traveled by horseback or wagon to isolated Mission Indian villages in California. ...
more pages: 366
Seville - Page 15
"When I was last in your father's house in Seville, your mother sent for me to her room, and under her window was a stone balcony full of growing musk ...

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They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.Page 342
The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament, in the branches of which the birds of the air may rest. Coming up out of the earth, so slender a stem that dozens can find...Page 37
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