The  Indian reform letters of Helen Hunt Jackson, 1879-1885
By: edited by Valerie Sherer Mathes.
Contributors: Mathes, Valerie Sherer, 1941-
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 -- Correspondence.; Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885 -- Political and social views.; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Correspondence.; Women social reformers -- United States -- Correspondence.; Indians of North America -- Civil rights -- California.; Social reformers -- United States -- Correspondence.; Ponca Indians -- Government relations.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-360) and index.