| Description |
xxiv, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Explores the history of the fight for women's rights in the West, examining the conditions that prevailed during the vast migration of pioneers looking for free land and opportunity on the frontier, the politics of the emerging Western territories at the end of the Civil War, and the changing social and economic conditions of the country recovering from war and on the brink of the Gilded Age; prominent figures include Esther Hobart Morris, Martha Cannon, and Jeannette Rankin. |
| Subject |
Women -- Suffrage -- West (U.S.)
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Women's rights -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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| ISBN |
1493048910 |
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9781493048915 |
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