Ramona
Ramona,novel by Helen Hunt Jackson, published in 1884.
On the southern California ranch of Señora Moreno, a haughty Spaniard who refuses to yield to the onrushing tide of American conquest, live her son Felipe and Ramona Ortegna, a half-Indian and half-Scotch girl who does not realize that she has been adopted. To this ranch comes Alessandro, a full-blooded Indian, who falls in love with Ramona and has his love reciprocated until Señora Moreno, enraged at the union between her adopted daughter and an Indian, attempts to sever the romance. Alessandro returns to his native village, which he finds has been destroyed by the Americans, who have also killed his father in seizing the Indian land. He returns to the Spanish ranch, and Ramona elopes with him to San Diego. They are driven from place to place by the avaricious hordes of Americans, until Alessandro loses his reason and is killed by an American whose horse he had temporarily taken. Ramona...
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