Banning woman received a very early copy of ‘Ramona’ in 1885

Banning woman received a very early copy of ‘Ramona’ in 1885

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 to glorify Southern California, but to shed light on the plight of the area’s Native Americans who suffered greatly (some argue more than most) during first the assimilation into the Spanish mission system, and then with the coming of Americans, who…