South Cheyene [sic] Canyon [graphic] 1936.

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South Cheyene [sic] Canyon [graphic] 1936.

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View of Helen (Fiske) Hunt Jackson's grave site on Cheyenne Mountain in El Paso County, Colorado. The grave is marked by a large pile of stones (a cairn). An inscription one of the one rocks reads: "Helen Hunt, died Aug. 12, 1885." Helen Hunt Jackson was the first wife of William S. Jackson (1836-1919).

1 photographic print ; 7 x 11 cm. (3 x 4 in.) mounted on album page.

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Denver Public Library, Central Library

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Jackson, William S. (William Sharpless), 1836-1919

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William Sharpless Jackson was born (1836) and raised in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He served as an apprentice in the machinist trade in Wilmington, Delaware. For the next six years, he engaged in the lumber trade and car industry. Afterwards William S. Jackson worked for the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company in Duluth. This job introduced him to William Jackson Palmer, who invited him to work for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company. In 1871, William S. Jackson moved to Colo...

Jackson (Family : Jackson, William Sharpless)

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William Sharpless Jackson [I] was born (1836) and raised in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He served as an apprentice in the machinist trade in Wilmington, Delaware. For the next six years, he engaged in the lumber trade and car industry. Afterwards William S. Jackson [I] worked for the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company in Duluth. This job introduced him to William Jackson Palmer, who invited him to work for the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company. In 1871, William S. Jackson [I] m...

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

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Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; born Helen Maria Fiske; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted co...