Letter to Ella Higginson, 1907, Oct. 7.

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Letter to Ella Higginson, 1907, Oct. 7.

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Buchanan wrote this letter in response to a letter he received from writer Ella Higginson requesting information on Indians in Alaska and Alaska in general. Buchanan suggests she read some of the Bulletins published by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology, as well as various works by Miner Bruce, Henry Henshaw, Otis Mason, and Dr. Sheldon Jackson. Higginson, who was from Washington, published her book Alaska, the great country three years later.

1 letter, 27 cm.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Buchanan, Charles Milton, 1868-1920

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Charles Milton Buchanan was a physician as well as the government agent at the Tulalip Agency, Tulalip, Washington, and school superintendent on the Tulalip Indian Reservation near Everett, Washington. From the description of Letter to Ella Higginson, 1907, Oct. 7. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122644253 ...

Mason, Otis T., 1838-1908

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Otis Tufton Mason (1838-1908) was an ethnologist. His parents were Rachel Lincoln Mason and John Mason, whose ancestors were from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. From the guide to the Otis Tufton Mason Papers, ., 1849-1910, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

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Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909

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Sheldon Jackson organized pioneer Presbyterian churches and schools in the West and Alaska. He recognized the importance of women's missionary work and helped to establish the Women's Executive Committee in 1878. In 1885, he was appointed as general agent for education in Alaska. In 1891, Jackson was instrumental in introducing reindeer into Alaska to remedy the failing food supply due to whalers. He continued to be active in the church's missionary work until his death. From the des...

Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930

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Henry Wetherbee Henshaw (1850-1930) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 3, 1850. Henshaw wanted to go to Harvard, but due to his health he was unable to go. He was invited to go on a voyage to the southern coast of Louisiana. That was where he began his career as a naturalist. He traveled to many places and became particularly interested in birds. He collected many unknown bird species in Arizona and made valuable observations. In 1880, he worked as an ethnologist at the Bureau of Ame...

Higginson, Ella, 1862-1940

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Author and advocate for women's issues, Higginson was born in Kansas to Charles and Mary Rhodes in 1861. The family moved to Oregon in Higginson's youth, where she married Russell Higginson in 1885. In 1888, the couple moved to Bellingham, Washington, where Higginson's writing career flourished. She was nationally published in journals such as McClure's, Harper's Monthly, and Colliers. Her best known poem, "Four Leaf Clover," propelled her into a weekly column for the Seattle Times entitled: "Cl...