The Indian reform letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885

Description:

Helen Hunt Jackson's passionate crusade for Indian rights comes to life in this collection of more than 200 letters, most of which have never been published before. With Valerie Sherer Mathes's helpful notes, the letters reveal the behind-the-scenes drama of Jackson's involvement in Indian reform, which led her to write A Century of Dishonor and her protest novel Ramona. These stirring letters will intrigue anyone interested in Indian affairs, nineteenth-century women's studies, or the social history of Victorian America, where Jackson made her mark despite the restrictions on women. Among her correspondents were Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Moncure D. Conway, Henry B. Whipple, Henry L. Dawes, Henry Teller, Carl Schurz, and, of course, commissioners of Indian affairs and such prominent editors as Whitelaw Reid, Charles Dudley Warner, and Richard Watson Gilder.

subjects: Correspondence,  Government relations,  Indians of North America,  Women social reformers,  Civil rights,  American Authors,  Political and social views,  Ponca Indians,  Authors, American,  Social reformers,  Jackson, helen hunt, 1831-1885,  Indians of north america, civil rights,  Indians of north america, government relations,  Indians of north america, west (u.s.),  American Women authors,  Authors, correspondence

People: Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

Places: California,  United States

Times: 19th century