How did the Santa Ana winds get their name?

We have now entered the fall season, and with that (typically) comes the season of the Santa Ana winds, those hot, dry winds that characterize many of our weather patterns during the last months of the year.
Raymond Chandler, the noted crime novelist who wrote such classics as “The Big Sleep,” described the condition: “There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your ne