Helen H. Jackson, Glimpses of California and the Missions

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Helen H. Jackson of Amherst, Massachusetts, turned to writing after the death of her first husband in 1863. Her marriage to William Jackson, a wealthy Denver Quaker, brought her to the West in 1875, and she soon became a Native American rights activist. She was sent west as part of a federal commission to investigate conditions among the Mission Indians in 1882, and her experiences as part of that commission inspired her famous 1884 novel Ramona. This database reprints articles Jackson first published in 1883. She offers a narrative history of the California mission system and the early years of Los Angeles as a Hispanic community and the work of Junipero Serra as well as an analysis of the fate of the Mission Indians after those missions were dismantled. The next section includes a chapter on Southern California's "outdoor industries" and one on Jackson's visit to Oregon.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 186. [database online] Washington: Library of Congress, 2000. Jackson, Helen. Glimpses of California and the Missions. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1902.

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