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Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and annexation of the territory by the United States, Ramona explores the life of a mixed-race Scottish–Native American orphan girl. The story was inspired by the marriage of Hugo Reid and Victoria Reid. [1]
Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government.
Ramona is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Edwin Carewe, [3] based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona, and starring Dolores del Río and Warner Baxter. While the film has no audible dialogue, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
The Ramona Outdoor Play, formerly known as (and still commonly called) The Ramona Pageant, is an outdoor drama staged annually in Hemet, California, [2] since 1923. [3] It is loosely based on the 1884 novel Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson .
Ramona is a 1936 American Drama Western film directed by Henry King, [3] based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. This was the third adaptation of the film, and the first one with sound. It was the fourth American feature film using the new three strip Technicolor process. It starred Loretta Young and Don Ameche.
Forty-six years after a Missouri hunter found a body in the Mississippi River, the victim has been identified as a 15-year-old girl from Iowa. Authorities in Lincoln County, Missouri, announced ...
Helen Hunt Jackson based her novel Ramona (1884) on newspaper accounts of Juan Diego's death. The novel is a romanticized story about a Native man named Alessandro who is murdered in front of his wife Ramona after they are forced from their homes by white settlers.
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