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was a haughty woman, cruel to the local Indians. The reported, " .. . a mob of 300 of both sexes took ad-
del Valles resented this characterization of their be- vantage of the opportunity to raid the orchards as
loved mother, Isabel. Reginaldo del Valle was sup- thoroughly and steal as many oranges as the time
posed to be Don Felipe, halfbrother to the halfbreed would permit, even invading the private grounds and
Ramona, and he must have been upset when Helen apartments of the house." 20 A few days later Ulipano
Hunt Jackson had him marrying the Indian girl at the published a notice prohibiting further tourists from
end of the book. entering the grounds. Reginaldo, who hadn't lived
Soon after the novel appeared, curious tourists there since 1877, was quick to see the possibility for
began showing up at Camulos. Edward Roberts of profit. He told a Ventura Free Press reporter that he
the San Francisco Chronicle visited the rancho and was going to build a 40 room Ramona Hotel over-
quoted the del Valles as saying, " ... Many who looking the rancho. In 1887 Reginaldo appealed to
come here do not believe that we are not the ones his long time political enemy Charles Crocker to es-
they wish to see." 18 Tourists sometimes ran rampant tablish a Southern Pacific station house and appoint
over the grounds entering into the private rooms of an agent at Camulos. 21 The same year Reginaldo and
the adobe demanding "Ramony, Ramony, where is a group of Californios met with a group of Anglo-
Ramony." 19 By 1896 four passenger trains a day Americans and founded the Ramona Parlor of the
passed by Camulos and on February 12 one was de- Native Sons of the Golden West, a fraternal organiza-
layed near the rancho for 20 minutes. The Examiner tion dedicated to the ". . . perpetuation of the

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