• publisher: Little, Brown
  • creator: Helen Hunt Jackson
  • contributor: unknown library
  • mediatype: texts
  • years: 1900
  • pages: 721
  • language: English
  • notes: Ramona, half Indian and half Scot and raised by a wealthy Mexican ranch family as a devout Catholic, marries a Catholic, full-blooded Indian. The story shows the decline of the Indian at the hands of the white man. Her husband is killed for stealing a white man's horse, and Ramona goes into a deep decline. Felipe, Ramona's foster brother, finds her and returns her to the ranch. When the white man begins to take land away from the Mexican ranchers, Felipe and Ramona return to Mexico and wed.
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