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

Title: The Indian reform letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885 / edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes.
Author: Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885.
Publication: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Mathes, Valerie Sherer, 1941-

Description

xxi, 372 pages : illustrations, map, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

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.

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ISBN

0806130903 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98002507

OCLC

ocm38249461

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries