One of the great "ethical" novels of the 19th century, Ramona was meant to do for the Native Americans what Uncle Tom's Cabin had done for the enslaved. 

I read this book as a young teenager.  In January, I bought a copy while wandering through Old Town in San Diego with my colleague Charles before a Gregorian chant workshop.  After letting it kick around the house for a few months, I just re-read it.

Still a great love story and drama of 19th century southern California.  You have to have a tolerance for the prolix writing of that era, but the characters and settings are still entrancing.

Oh, I also had a recording of the song.

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