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The status of women in the 19th-century West has drawn the attention of numerous scholars, whose interpretations fall into three types: 1) the Frontier school influenced by Frederick Jackson Turner, which argues that the West was a liberating experience for women and men; 2) the reactionists, who view the West as a place of drudgery for women ...
The Montana Memory Project was established in 2005 when Bruce Newell, the Montana State Library commissioner, “pushed for the creation of a program to help libraries statewide collect and preserve the history and culture of their communities.” [3] The MMP developed slowly out of this original project as logistics and technology evolved alongside interest in the project.
In 1920, a group of 23 women founded the organization to promote community service. Unlike most women's club of the time, it included a diverse mixture of members including Helene Dawson Edkins, a Blackfoot woman. [2] Edkins later served as club president and as their representative to the General Federation of Women's Clubs of Montana. [3]
History of women in Montana (1 C, 16 P) I. Industrial Workers of the World in Montana (3 P) L. ... Template:Montana wildfires; A. Absaroka (proposed state) America Eats;
Remarkable Montana women / Gayle C. Shirley. Montana women educators : a collection of biographical articles / by Montana members of Delta Kappa Gamma Society International. Montana women homesteaders : a field of one's own / edited by Sarah Carter. Wanton West : madams, money, murder, and the wild women of Montana's frontier / Lael Morgan.
In the early twentieth century, Jeannette Rankin became a driving force around the women's suffrage movement in Montana. By January 1913, a women's suffrage bill had passed the Montana Legislature and went out as a referendum. Suffragists launched an all-out campaign leading up to the vote.
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Pages in category "History of women in Montana" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.