How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914

From: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914. By Rebecca J. Mead. (New York: New York University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 273. Illustrations, index. Cloth, $42.00).

Western states and territories, beginning with Wyoming in 1869, pioneered in establishing woman suffrage while the East lagged well behind. That is a familiar story, but scholars have typically approached the subject only piecemeal and offered unconvincing explanations of why wcmen gained the ballot more quickly in the West than in the East. Rebecca Mead's Hoiv the Vote Was Won is the first attempt at a ...

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