Saxe Holm's Stories Author:Helen Hunt Jackson Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (1830 -1885) was an American writer best known as the author of Ramona, a novel about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California. In 1852, Helen married Army Captain Edward Bissell Hunt, who died in a military accident in 1863. Her son Murray Hunt died in 1854 of a brain disease; her other son, Rennie ... more »Hunt, died of diphtheria in 1865. She began writing after these deaths. After her marriage to William Jackson Helen became interested in the plight of the American Indians. In 1873 she wrote Saxe Holm's Stories containing the stories Draxy Miller's Dowry, The Elder's Wife, Whose Wife Was She?, The One-Legged Dancers, How One Woman Kept Her Husband, and Esther Wynn's Love-Letters« less