Helen Hunt Jackson Papers. Part 5, 1851-1884.

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Helen Hunt Jackson Papers. Part 5, 1851-1884.

Correspondence between Helen Hunt Jackson and her sister, Anne Banfield, her niece, Helen Banfield and friend, Henry Root; family photographs.

2.25 linear ft. (2 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7570661

Colorado College, Tutt Library

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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...

Banfield, Anne Scofield Fiske, 1834-1915

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Sister of Helen Hunt Jackson and wife of E. C. Banfield, a federal government official who served as Solicitor of the United States Treasury....

Root, Henry, 1935-2005

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Jackson, Helen Banfield, 1859-1899.

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