Ramona didn’t start out as Ramona; it was first known as Nuevo, a small rural settlement tucked into the foothills of North ...

Originally conceived as a denunciation of the violence inflicted on Native American populations, Helen Hunt Jackson’s Ramona ended up transforming an imagined California into one of the most ...

Spanish colonial homes are common in America, but they are the surprising result of one novelist’s imagination.

At the end of 1884, one of the most influential books about Southern California was published. That year, “Ramona” was first serialized and then made into a book. Author Helen Hunt Jackson sought not ...