"Historical incident in the lives of Mr. and Mrs. James Rawson of Hemet, California," 1930.

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...

Rawson, Thomas James

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Epithet: Collector of Excise at Naas British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000877.0x00033c Pansee Tift Benson taught school on Hemet, California ranch of Thomas Rawson (1911-1912). Rawson told Benson that Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885), author of "Ramona" (1884), had based principal characters of that novel on two Indian laborers on Rawson ranch. From the description of "Historical incident in the lives o...

Rawson family.

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