Описание: Helen Hunt Jacksons 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 Mathess helpful notes, the letters reveal the behind-the-scenes drama of Jacksons involvement in Indian reform, which led her to write A Century of Dishonor and her protest novel, Ramona.
Ralph Waldo Emerson described Jackson as the -greatest American woman poet.- These stirring letters will intrigue anyone interested in Indian affairs, nineteenth-century womens 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.
The letters are presented in sections on the Ponca and Mission Indian causes, allowing readers to focus on the time period and Indian group of choice.
