it was supposed to be the "uncle tom's cabin" for the indians, the woman who wrote it was helen hunt jackson, she wanned to highlight the plight of the indians, just like uncle tom's cabin did with the slaves. unfortunately, what happened was that she died within just a few months of its publication and she had written such glowing accounts of what southern california was like at least in her vision, you know, it was always a sun drenched landscape, everything is either in fruit or wloom, we get images of the peaceful indians working for the padres than elike. and that's quite a dru too, people want to come out here when they read, oh my goodness, it's always springtime out here, is that true? and they come out. between trying to rediscover our spanish past, our health concerns, our agricultural opportunities, and now we have railroads that can bring people out fairly quickly, cheaply, and easily, we start to see a huge population boom here. in the 1870's and more so in the 1880's. but by 1873, we discover a, what became the washington naval orange and this was an orange that had come from b

another western woman i want to is helen hunt jackson of colorado. she wrote a book that looked at how terrible it was, what we did to american indians. at her own expense she sent a copy of the book to every member of congress. redhad the printer right in they areon your hands, stained with the blood of your relations. disappointment, the book had little impact. goes on. woman were very important to our health, too early outstanding early western woman. aboutced there is a book dr. suzy. dr. susan anderson was a colorado woman and one of the first women to practice in colorado. even more surprising to me is susan, a here, dr. native american in nebraska. nebraska is considered a western state. women -- don't you love this? [laughter] they did not make the cut in the book. notion ofart of an outlaws and gamblers and madams. there are many people who have written books about them. one book published in 2015 , notorious,d woman mischievous, and wayward ladies from the old west. some of the women's stories are fun. many are sad. sad tales because they r

in the late 1800s, thanks to helen hunt jackson and others, there was a real move to try to americanize, bring them up to speed, bring them up to "civilized status," that is the native american population who had been residing on reservations. to americanize them, and the way to do that, the government reformers felt, was to bring them into boarding schools around the country and teach them english, teach them skills they could use in society. what girls traditional -- are now stereotypical female skills. the young men, the male skills like carpentry and mechanics, hat sort of thing. maybe not assuming they would ever go to a university. sherman institute was originally established at paris, which is just to the southeast of us here in the 1890's. frank miller, though, wanting to get -- because he was a real advocate of the arts and crafts movement, and his hotel had just been redesigned based on the california mission style -- he wanted to get a real mission, or real indian, he thought, to riverside. that is not to denigrate its intent. but he was always a promoter as well as a progres