| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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Book Review

Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California. By Dydia DeLyser. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xxiii + 256 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $56.95, cloth; $18.95, paper).

According to Dydia DeLyser, the "most important woman in the history and geography of southern California never lived, nor has she yet died" (p. 188). Ramona Memories restores this woman—the fictional Ramona, as well as her creator, Helen Hunt Jackson—to their rightful place in regional history. In this book, Ramona-inspired tourism emerges as a central force in the construction of Southern California. In a carefully researched and argued study, DeLyser analyses historic sites incorporated into the Ramona myth, new sites constructed to profit from it, the hugely popular Ramona Pageant, and even real individuals who, willingly or unwillingly, were drawn into the myth as well.

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