Aunt Jane`s Nieces on the Ranch is a 1913 novel by L. Frank Baum writing as `Edith Van Dyne`. The novel depicts a story of racial tension on the California ranch owned by the progressive-minded Arthur Weldon and Louise Merrick Weldon, who have entrusted their baby, Jane, nicknamed `Toodlums,` to a Mexican governess named Inez. Louise`s uncle...