her charges rankled william byers, the editor of the rocky mountain news in 18 624. he had dismissed claims that sand creek had been a massacre. 1879, he ignored the ongoing indian wars. he replied to jackson that sand creek had pacified the plane strives -- tribes rather than spurring them to buy pretty said jackson was originally from new and couldd a woman not possibly understand the violence at sand creek. fetepossessed ef sensibilities out of place in a rough-and-tumble west. helen hunt jackson gave as good as she got. she rebutted his sexism and regionalism with patriotic nationalism. the bloodshed after sand creek, she noted, occupied thousands of federal troops who otherwise might better have spent their time fighting confederates. been aeek had not just massacre, have also detracted from the union war effort. as jackson engaged in this print war with byers, she worked on the book about the nation's history of mistreating its indigenous peoples. it was published in 1881 and argue that only by overhauling federal indian policy could the united states be redeem