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100 1  Gallagher, Winifred,|eauthor. 
245 10 New women in the old west :|bfrom settlers to suffragists,
       an untold American story /|cWinifred Gallagher. 
264  1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2021. 
300    xxiv, 277 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-263) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tHome on the Range --|tThe Respectable Community --
       |tWoman Rights --|tWyoming Makes History --|tA Home of Her
       Own --|tA Man's Education --|tWomen at Work --|tAn 
       Ambitious Organization of Ladies --|t"Do Everything" --
       |tWomen and the "Indian Question" --|tProgressives and 
       Populists --|tSuffrage Central --|tNew Women Squared --
       |tThe East Looks West --|tThe Enfranchised West. 
520    "A riveting history of the American West told for the 
       first time through the pioneering women who used the 
       challenges of migration and settlement as opportunities to
       advocate for their rights, and transformed the country in 
       the process. Between 1840 and 1910, over half a million 
       men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped 
       American West, the vast lands that extended from the Great
       Plains to the Pacific Ocean. Survival in this uncharted 
       region required two hard-working partners, compelling 
       women to take on equal responsibilities to men, proving to
       themselves--and their husbands--that they were capable of 
       far more than society maintained. Back East, women were 
       citizens in name only. Unable to vote, own property, or 
       file for divorce, women were kept separate from the 
       dynamic male world outside the home. But the women of the 
       west rightly saw themselves as patriotic pioneers, vital 
       contributors to westward expansion. By the mid-nineteenth 
       century the fight for women's suffrage was radical but 
       hardly new, until the women of the west changed the 
       course. Armed with the ethos of "manifest domesticity," 
       they established and managed schools, churches, and 
       philanthropies; they ran for office, first for the school 
       board but soon for local legislature. Wielding their 
       authority in public life for political gains, they 
       successfully fought for the right to earn income, purchase
       property, and, especially, vote. In 1869, partly to lure 
       more women past the Rocky Mountains, Wyoming gave women 
       the vote. Utah, Colorado, and Idaho soon followed, and 
       long before the Nineteenth Amendment of 1919 did so across
       the country, nearly every western state or territory had 
       enfranchised women. In New Women in the Old West, Winifred
       Gallagher brings to life the little known and under-
       reported women who played monumental roles in one of the 
       most vibrant and transformative periods in the history of 
       the United States. Alongside their victories, Gallagher 
       explores the women who were less privileged by race and 
       class, the Native American, Hispanic, African-American, 
       and Asian women, yet joined the fight for universal 
       equality. Drawing on an extraordinary collection of 
       research, including personal letters and diaries, 
       Gallagher weaves together the striking achievements of 
       those who not only created homes on weather-wracked 
       prairies and built communities in muddy mining camps, but 
       played a crucial, unrecognized role in the women's rights 
       movement, and forever redefined the 'American woman.' "--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Women|zWest (U.S.)|xHistory. 
650  0 Frontier and pioneer life|zWest (U.S.)|xHistory.