| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Canada and the United States

Dydia DeLyser. Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, N. Mex. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 256. Cloth $56.95, paper $18.95.

In 1884, Helen Hunt Jackson published Ramona, a novel that became an instant and enduring bestseller with its romantic portrayal of a young mixed-blood Native American heroine and her Indian lover. Already a successful writer of poetry, sentimental fiction, domestic advice books, and travel narratives, Jackson changed gears late in her career to focus on the forcible dispossession of indigenous peoples from their homelands. After trying her hand at political tracts and letters to the editor, she returned to fiction, crafting a melodramatic story of the orphan Ramona, ward to the sinister Señora Moreno, who has kept the girl's racial heritage from her. Ramona elopes with the Indian hero Alessandro, and the two flee from the brutal encroachments of white settlers before coming to a tragic end.

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