Helen Addison Howard

[2] She remained in California after graduation, and met and married Ben Overland, a Los Angeles restaurant owner, in 1946.

[3][1] While mostly recognized for her writings on Native Americans, particularly the Nez Percé, she also wrote extensively on other aspects of the frontier west.

She also contributed to several journals, including Washington Historical Quarterly, Writer, Frontier and Midland, Historical Bulletin, Journal of the West, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Catholic Digest, and Real West.

Howard was also a book reviewer for Journal of the West beginning in 1969, and a member of its editorial advisory board in 1978.

In recognition of her literary contributions, Howard was included in the 1989 edition of The World Who's Who of Women.