Original Typescript - The Rose of the Rancho

Original typescript for the play, The Rose of the Rancho, co-authored by David Belasco and Richard Walton Tully. No holographs or signatures by the authors. The play is presented in three acts and typescript divided accordingly. No date, circa 1906. 8 1/2" x 11." 125 pages total (Act I: 52 pages; Act II: 55 pages; Act III: 18 pages). Pages are clean and intact overall except for moderate age toning, slight wear to extremities, and a cloth strip tipped in on back of last page (likely from being formerly bound). A Very Good copy. This is the typescript for a three-act play, The Rose of the Rancho, written by David Belasco (1853-1931), an American playwright, impresario, and theatrical director and producer, and Richard Walton Tully (1877-1945), an American playwright. The play was first written in 1906 and was first performed on stage on November 27, 1906 at one of Belasco's theaters, the Belasco Theatre in New York City. In 1936, the play was published and adapted for the screen as a western film of the same name. In this typescript, The Rose of the Rancho is set in California during the late 1850s ("the American Invasion of Spanish California") and centers around a young woman named Juanita Castro, the eponymous "Rose of the Rancho." The narrative focuses on Juanita's coming-of-age (and some romance) amid the tumultuous exploits of Joe Kinkaid (also, Kincaid) and his gang. Kinkaid is using a legal loophole to extract land and property from their rightful owners and leaving a wake of despair throughout California. Distraught, Juanita enlists the help of a federal agent Kearney to put a stop to Kinkaid and his men.…