Helen Hunt's Grave
".....In June 1884, a severely fractured leg left Jackson a cripple. Despite the handicap, she returned to California to visit Hispanic friends and continue writing. While there, she developed cancer. Nonetheless, she never lost hope for the future until death claimed her on August 12, 1885.
In fact, her last letter was sent to President Grover Cleveland urging him to read A Century of Dishonor. According to Theodore Fuller, she wrote: 'I am dying happier in the belief I have that it is your hand that is destined to strike the first steady blow toward lifting the burden of infamy from our country and righting the wrongs of the Indian race.'
Temporarily interred in San Francisco, she later was buried near the Summit of Mount Jackson, Colorado, a Cheyenne peak named for her, about four miles from Colorado Springs. Finally, to avoid possible vandalism and commercialism, her body was removed permanently to Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs....." -- www.theglassceiling.com/biographies/bio16.htm
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