The True Story of Don Perfecto Hugo Reid

Romance of the Ranchos. San Gabriel 1837, hound upset by Scotsman romance with Indian girls. San Gabriel 1842, Runcero by ship for trading ventures. San Gabriel 1852, Runcero pleads for Indian reform. The title insurance and trust company of Los Angeles presents The Romance of the Ranchers, a weekly dramatization of the great personalities and momentous events which produced our California

of today. Each week our wandering Viquero Frank Graham returns with another true story of the romantic, adventurous days of the dawn. How long will the war last? Is the number one question in all minds, in Washington and throughout the country. Nobody knows the answer, not even the best informed experts, not even our president. But one thing we all do know is that the faster

we build planes and tanks and guns and bombs, the sooner we can bring the war to a victorious conclusion, and the sooner the victory that your American lives will be lost. So once again, title insurance and trust company, reminds you to buy defense bonds and stamps, all you can afford as often as you can, as a business investment and as an investment in America.

Now here is our wandering bicaro Frank Graham to tell us the story. Win us no chis, señoras, y señoras. Tonight's story is one that touches the heart of everyone, for its romantic story of the young Scotch adventurer who fell in love with California and with one of her beautiful daughters.

The characters are famous, for in the fictional story of Ramona, Helen Hunt Jackson used these people as a basis for her story. This is the true story of Don't Perfecto Hugo Reed and his Indian wife and of their life at San Gabriel and Santa Anita. It's a tale rich in the romance of the ranshows. Our story begins far from the sunshine of 7 California in a little town