No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West by Chris Enss, Erin H. Turner
English | February 14th, 2020 | ISBN: 1493048910 | 232 pages | EPUB | 16.20 MB
In 1869, more than twenty years after Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony made their declaration of the rights of woman at Seneca Falls, New York, the men of the Wyoming Territorial Legislature granted women over the age of 21 the right to vote in general elections. And on September 6, 1870, a grandmother named Louisa Ann Swain stepped up to a ballet box in Laramie, Wyoming, and became the first woman in the United States to exercise that right, ushering in the era of Western states' early foray into suffrage equality.