In 1875, he began work as a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey.
 Working chiefly in the Colorado Plateau region, he wrote several classic papers, including geological studies of the high plateaus of Utah (1879–80), the Cenozoic history of the Grand Canyon district (1882), and the Charleston, SC earthquake of 1886.
 As head of the division of volcanic geology at the USGS, he studied volcanism in Hawaii, California, and Oregon; his studies of basaltic lava flows in Hawaii led him to introduce the native Hawaiian language terms "ʻaʻā" and "pāhoehoe" for cool, clinkery lava flows and smooth, billowy lava flows respectively.
 He helped coordinate the scientific response to a large earthquake in the Mexican state of Sonora in 1887.
 He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1884.
Mother Jones' Prison, also known as Mrs. Carney's Boarding House, was a National Historic Landmark located at Pratt, Kanawha County, West Virginia.
 It was a large two-story structure constructed by the Willis Brothers and used mostly as a boarding house.
 It was the "prison" in which labor organizer and agitator Mary Harris "Mother Jones" was detained during the 1912–1913 mine wars.
Kaiulani Lee is an American actress.
 She is best known for her portrayal of Rachel Carson in both the film and stage version of "A Sense of Wonder", which she also wrote.
 A Sense of Wonder the film was released in 2010 Directed by Christopher Monger, Director of Photography by Haskell Wexler, ASC.
 She has been touring with the show for almost 30 years as well as with ""Can't Scare Me...the Story of Mother Jones"" which debuted at the Atlas Theater Performing Arts Center Space at George Mason University.
 In ""Can't Scare Me.
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 also written by Lee, she portrays Mother Jones.
 The play is drawn from Mother Jones's autobiography, her letters, speeches, interviews and transcripts.
Mother Jones (abbreviated MoJo) is a progressive American magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative reporting on topics including politics, the environment, human rights, and culture.
 Clara Jeffery serves as editor.
 Steve Katz has been publisher since 2010.
 Monika Bauerlein has been CEO since 2015.
 "Mother Jones" is published by The Foundation for National Progress.
Francis Joseph "Frank" Scaturro (born July 26, 1972) is an American lawyer, historian, public advocate, and politician.
 As a college student, he spearheaded the restoration of Grant's Tomb in New York City’s Riverside Park, and wrote a reassessment of Ulysses S. Grant’s presidency.
 Scaturro is a constitutional law expert and served as Counsel for the Constitution on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 2005 to 2009, and helped coordinate the nomination process to elevate John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court.
 Scaturro published other books and articles about history, constitutional law, and public policy.
 He ran for Congress in 2010, 2012 and 2014 in New York's 4th congressional district on Long Island, but was defeated each time.
Daniel Schulman is an American author and journalist.
 He is a senior editor at the Washington, D.C. bureau of "Mother Jones".
 In 2014, he wrote the book "Sons of Wichita", a biography of the Koch family.
 In 2015, Schulman, along with David Corn, released a story in "Mother Jones" questioning whether Bill O'Reilly's story about his coverage of the Falklands War was accurate.
Jerry Goodman was a leading activist of the Soviet Jewry Movement and the founding executive director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, a national agency established to coordinate the efforts of the American Jewish communities on behalf of Jews in the Soviet Union.
 He co-established the organization in 1971 and directed it until 1988.
 Prior to creation of the National Conference, Goodman was Director for European Affairs at the American Jewish Committee and helped coordinate the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry that was later restructured and renamed to National Conference on Soviet Jewry.
 Goodman acted as a consultant to the U.S. Congress in creating the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and helped the passing of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, a 1974 provision in United States federal law intended to restrict U.S. trade relations with USSR.
 He was one of the coordinators of the 1987 Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews, the largest human rights national manifestation for Soviet Jews in the history of the Soviet Jewry movement.
Abraham Lincoln Woods, Jr. (October 7, 1928 – November 7, 2008) was an American civil rights leader, who helped coordinate the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and stood behind Martin Luther King, Jr. during his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.
Pajonga Daeng Ngalie Karaeng Polongbangkeng (1901 – February 23, 1958) was an Indonesian governor who helped coordinate attacks in South Sulawesi during the National Revolution as well as promote integration in Indonesia.
 He was conferred the titles of "National Hero of Indonesia" ("Pahlawan Nasional") and "Tanda Kehormatan Bintang Maha Putra Adipradana" in 2006.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1837 – 30 November 1930) was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent organized labor representative and community organizer.
 She helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.

Question: Who was this Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who helped coordinate major strikes and was detained in Mother Jones' Prison?
Answer: Mary Harris "Mother Jones"